Title: I don't have many assets, but I'm marrying my girlfriend of a year and want to protect myself

Question: [deleted]

Answer:
 You don't need a prenuptial agreement. You need (1) premarital counseling, (2) some financial education to learn things like what an "asset" is, and (3) to stop getting your marriage opinions on the internet.

* Did you finance your Golf? Because if you did, it's not likely an asset. It's only worth what is left over after you pay off the loan. If the rest of your post is any indication, you're probably upside down and it's worth zero.

* You can't do a prenuptial agreement without both parties being represented by lawyers. It's not a DIY thing.

* Women do not have a huge advantage in divorce court. Most states have gone to a fairly mathematical formula for things like child support and alimony which favors neither side.

* I said you need premarital counseling because your wife-to-be should be aware of, and should communicate with you, regarding your cynicism about marriage. Your attitude is not great. Regardless, premarital counseling is good for every couple to iron out the kinks before the big day.

Bottom line: Unless one party has SIGNIFICANTLY greater assets than the other, and those assets are enough to justify the cost of two attorneys to hopefully protect, there is no reason for a prenuptial agreement. Certainly not in the case of what seems to be a young dudebro with most likely a negative net worth.


Title: Parking ticket lists wrong street

Question: I was improperly parked  but the ticket I received has the wrong street labeled.  Would I be able to get the ticket dismissed on this basis?

Answer: No. Clerical and administrative errors are not grounds for getting a ticket dismissed.


Title: I just found out the management at the restaurant I work at has been adopting free rabbits off craigslist from people to use in their meals. Is this legal?

Question: [removed]

Answer: Former US health inspector...NO this is not alright.  Food has to come from an approved source. Meat in the US has to be inspected and approved for human consumption by the USDA- as I am sure is the same of your regulatory authority in Canada. Please call your health department and report this. These rabbits could carry any number of diseases that could be transmissible to humans. Answer #2: Honestly, beyond being both disgusting and wrong, this seems like a highly inefficient way to obtain rabbit meat for a restaurant. Answer #3: That is hilarious, but it probably involves some sort of health violation. Answer #4: Paging /u/theletterqwerty


Title: Harassing incoherent landlord that won't leave me alone. What do I do?! (England)

Question: [deleted]


Title: I want custody of my two sisters

Question:
First i want to say that i have not talked to my parents directly in just over 5 years, but i still regularly talk to my two younger sisters. This is because i was sexually assaulted by my uncle for years and my parents knew about it, and after i turned him in they abused me themselves. My sister (16) (who is in her senior year of highschool and moved out of my parents house this year) told me yesterday when she came over that my parents have been beating my 10 year old sister. I was LIVID and imediatly went to my parents house to check on my sister, she had two black eyes and was obviously in a lot of pain with a bunch of other hand marks all over her body. I want custody of them but how would i go about doing that.

Btw, my sisters are both at my place for the time being. I am NOT letting either of them go back into that house.
Topic:
Custody Divorce and Family

Answer: You cannot refuse to return the children home. You need to call the police immediately.


Title: Executive Order Forced Vaccine Mandates

Question: [removed]

Answer: I think that absent a legitimate (and very rare) medical or religious exemption, then vaccination against a pandemic illness which has killed 700,000+ (roughly 1 out of every 500 Americans) should be the price of admission to society.


Title: [VA] Removed from schedule because I refused to make an illegal sale.

Question:
So this just happened, but I work at a gas station and have had a problematic regular for a while who frequently buys alcohol. A few days prior, I sold him alcohol without realizing that he was already drunk. I realized he may have been after he rushed out the door with his beer before I could bag it (required by VA law.)

Today I refused to sell him alcohol as he seemed pretty angry (one of the possible criteria listed in the training videos I sat though my first day.) and he absolutely blew up. He finally left the store after a good 10 minutes of yelling and apparently put in a complaint somewhere. Half an hour later a coworker (I think she was a manager but there aren't any formal roles) came in and informed me I was being taken off the schedule until further notice at the owners orders.

What can I do to protect myself in this situation?

Am I entitled to my normal wage of 32 hours a week until "further notice" happens? Or a reimbursement?

I have been given the impression that I am personally accountable if I make an illegal sale, as far as being told that employees would be "handcuffed on the spot" if they were caught by one of the frequent 'sting operations' in the area.

Answer:
 While many states are at will employment, it is against public policy to discharge for refusal to commit an illegal act.

 Find an employment attorney.  This is a slamdunk case that they will take for the usually contingency fee


Title: My right to park.

Question:
I live in an apartment complex in Greenville, SC. I work second shift and into third, usually getting off around 10-12 P.M. My family and I have just moved here and experiencing parking issues. The issue being there is no parking. Our complex is right on a major road with many pedestrians passing by at all times. It is also a non-gated community, anyone can come on in. That all being said.. Arriving at home after work I come to find only handicap parking spots available. Upon further investigation and hunting I will find a parking spot, only it's not in view of my apartment building. This to me is a serious safety concern.

I called the office to talk to the property management team to express my concern, and was completely blown off. They simply said there's nothing that can be done about it. I would just have to park by the office(which is completely full) or park in the handicap and move my car at seven in the morning so I won't get towed. I'm forced to risk either my car and my own safety, or having my car towed. The apartment complex allows two cars per household, even though they cannot provide me with safe ample parking myself. There are no parking assignments here, nor are parking assignments in property managements (budget). I will be going to see them on Monday. I will express my concern again and how I would rather not park illegally at all, especially since I was already issued a citation for being forcefully parked there. I will be asking for their corporates number and expressing concern to them as well.

Do I have any right to parking I feel is safe as a tenant? Is there any legal route to take this? Can I break lease under safety concerns? I have so many questions and frustrations. I feel bullied, mislead, UN-safe and UN-cared for.

Answer: You only have a right to the parking described in your lease. No one is obligated to care about you.Answer #2: Please DO NOT park in the handicapped spots. Outside of advising you to park there being rather unethical, there's nothing to stop someone else from calling the police at any time (including the middle of the night) and having you towed and/or ticketed.


Title: What are the nudity laws in VT?

Question:
What are the laws regarding nudity in VT? Specifically, I much rather prefer to wear (or not) clothes at will, rather than having to all the time. I was thinking of "testing the waters" so to speak by going nude sunbathing by some less explored lakes, and if all goes well, buy a small house somewhere and going clothing optional in my yard.

It is to my understanding that it's perfectly legal to even to walk around town in the nude as long as you're not being sexual about it. Is that true?

Would be helpful to know how much I can get away with w/out getting arrested :)

Answer:
 This sounds like a hyper-local level issue.  You would have to check at town, and/or county level for public activity.

Also, you might still get arrested, just because you're nude and then they'll figure out they have no charges later and release you.  So asking the police what they'd do is not the worst idea if you're in town trying this.


Title: (Northern Virginia) Is it legal for multiple apartment complexes to collude on rent prices?

Question:
I'm in northern Virginia and my lease is coming up for renewal. Despite every data aggregation and rental pricing site showing a 1% decrease in rent prices, the offer from my complex was an 11%+ increase. When I complained, they offered an 8%+ increase and said "unfortunately, market rates have gone up." I sent them a summary of rent prices and asked for more info or a source for their "market rates." This was the main part of the response (emphasis mine):

"The market rates that I was referring to are for this general area. **We actually do a weekly survey with our competitors to ensure our pricing is all in line with one another.** All of the pricing in this area has increased over the past few months. Average renewal increases can range up to 15% for this region."

It sounds to me like they're saying that they're engaging in price-fixing. It says a survey *with* their competitors instead of *of* their competitors, and the second half sounds like they all adjust their prices or at least validate them.

Is this legal for housing? I believe price-fixing in general is illegal, but maybe there's some allowance for housing? If it is illegal, what do I do? Will renewing the lease remove my ability to do something about it? I'd rather pay the increase than to go through the hassle of moving to save what will end up being a couple hundred dollars at most.... especially if nearby prices are rigged that way.

Thanks for any advice.
Topic:
Landlord Tenant Housing

Answer:
 Have you gone out and investigated comparable rental prices in the area for yourself? Not just using data from a site?

Also, you may be jumping the gun in accusing them of price fixing based upon some wonky sentence structure in an email.


Title: Am I stuck in a lease before I pay security deposit or move in?

Question:
So I found an apartment in NJ I was interested in and stupidly enough I paid a $500 in "good faith" money as part of my application. This money would go towards the $1950 security deposit if I am accepted for the lease.

The landlord handed me a lease agreement and credit check paperwork before I was accepted and asked me to sign both. Confused, I asked him if I am committed upon signing. He said "no, it is not official until I have signed it upon your approval. Then I will mail the lease agreement to you and more paperwork for you to sign."

One week later, the landlord informs me I have been accepted and he will be mailing me the paperwork. I told him I was no longer interested, I have found another apartment and the "good faith" money was his to keep for wasting his time. He tells me it's too late, I have already committed to the lease.

What are my options here? I have never signed a lease before and I feel it is weird that I signed paperwork confirming the lease before he even accepted me and before I even paid the security deposit. Can I get out of this? The landlord is avoiding my calls.

Answer: Sounds like you already signed the lease?


Title: (UT) Boyfriend charged for domestic violence. Complete misunderstanding and mistreatment on my part.

Question:
Please bare with me and read. I’m in the dark and I need all the help I can for him.

My boyfriend and me got into what started as a small argument last night. We had been drinking a bit and I ended up making him feel bad for communicating an issue he had. I left to go into our bedroom with the thought process that we were both drunk, needed a second to calm down from each other, and that we would realize how dumb we were being in the morning and apologize. 30 minutes later, bf knocks on the bedroom door because he wants to go to bed, while I wanted to stay up watching stuff. He expressed no desire to sleep near me- that’s fine. I left, a bit annoyed because I went in to get some space. He followed me into the living room. He wanted to have a discussion. I should’ve communicated but I just wanted to be left alone. He wanted to continue this argument. I leave our apartment to take a walk around the building to give us more time to cool off. When I come back, he had decided he would be in the living room for the night. Again, I expressed annoyance that I just wanted to be left alone and he kept wanting to continue an argument that would’ve easily been settled if we were sober and not tired. I told him it was his turn to take the dog out and he fought me that it was my responsibility this time. I slammed the bedroom door. He came to the bedroom and told me not to slam things. The fight escalated to where he was standing in the doorway. I pleaded to be left alone, I begged, and eventually I got to screaming in his face because he wouldn’t leave. In my complete lack of respect, I shoved him, just wanting to close the door and go to sleep. He pushed me back. I kept pleading to be left alone. Comments were made by both of us. I ended up calling 911. My only goal with calling 911 was to get it through to him that I wanted to be left alone. I didn’t want anyone brought out. Ignorantly, I just hoped maybe the operator on the line could tell him to leave. He left by the time I got through to the police. Operator told me they were sending someone out. I told her to cancel them coming and she said it was up to the cops.

Cops come in and separate us. We both explained the situation. Same story. I admitted that we both pushed each other and of course the cops latched onto the pushing- considering it domestic abuse. I realize it can be seen as that. I wasn’t hurt. My boyfriend wasn’t hurt.

I begged the cops to just drop this as it was a complete mistake and wasn’t anything more. I’m safe and not a victim in any circumstance here. If anything, my boyfriend is. I accused the cop of completely disregarding that I pushed first because I’m a woman. No matter what I said, the cops told me the laws don’t allow officers to decide these situations.

Boyfriend was told he had to leave our apartment for the night and there would be no contact until a hearing. My boyfriend has no family out here and it was too late to call. I told officers I had plenty of places to go and a friend waiting for the word to pick me up so my boyfriend didn’t have to spend the night in jail. These officers listened to nothing I said.

I’ve been awake and throwing up all night sick over all this because my boyfriend is the last person to hurt me or anyone else in this world. I am not a victim and feel completely safe with him.

I don’t want charges pressed. I want the no contact order dismissed. And I just want this all to be dropped. I’ve been looking into what my testimony or statements as a “victim” can do to drop all this. If there are any tips for what helps alleviate a judges decision or get us out of this mess I caused. If I don’t go to the hearing, is there even a case?

I need all the information I can get. The hearing is tomorrow morning and I’m in the dark.

Answer:
 The second you called 911 during what is a textbook example of a domestic abuse situation, you put into motion a series of events that no one can really change or stop.

It up to the judge what happens now, anything you say really won't have any effect as quite often the victim in domestic abuse situations will defend the abuser.


Title: Can my doctor withhold medication until I take a drug test? (wv)

Question: [deleted]

Answer: Yes they can. A psych isn't obligated to prescribe you medicine in the first place. Also, they're probably checking to makr sure there are no side effects from mixing with other drugs that you haven't disclosed.


Title: Veterinary Medicine....This Can't Be Legal.

Question:
My boss, a veterinarian, fills prescriptions for Revolution for her deceased dog in order to sell them to clients.

She purchases the medication this way, I assume, for it to be cheaper for her. The medication is topical liquid that she orders for a 60-100 pound dog. She then will calculate what amount of the medication any animal would need and doses the meds via non- sterilized syringes to her calculated 'CCs' and will prescribe to dogs and cats of all sizes charging the client twice the market price the meds would be if she had given them the prepackaged correct doses. This doesn't sound legal to me for someone to fill a dead pets prescription and then sell it.

Answer:
 You should report this to the state or provincial licensing board.Answer #2: Your boss doesn't need to write a prescription for her dog to buy Revolution.  She's a licensed veterinarian and so could legally buy in bulk.

My guess is, this is a super-small practice and she literally has just the one package and not the typical case of the stuff because she can't afford boxes of the stuff lying around.  Answer #3: You can contact your state's veterinary licensing board about the filling prescriptions for a dead dog.

Her calculating the dosages, administering them via non-sterilized syringes, and charging above market prices aren't violations. It's shitty for clients and they should probably shop around to know they are being overcharged, but that's not illegal. Answer #4: >doses the meds via non- sterilized syringes

Revolution is a topical medicine.  Are you saying she is injecting animals with a topical or just using a syringe (plastic body with no needle) to apply the topical to the skin without the fur interfering?


Title: Parking ticket while inside car

Question: I was parked in a parking lot tonight and a police offer pulled over behind me and put a ticket on my windshield while I was inside the car. I come out and ask why he didn't give a warning but he said the sign near the gate of the entrance had a warning. The ticket however says I was in violation for parking on private property. Also the sign near the gate says I can't park after dusk, but that's so vague because people were parking there before half an hour earlier than me. Anyway I want to know if I should fight this? It seems ridiculous to me that cop would give a parking ticket while I'm inside the car and also tell me I got a ticket for this reason when my ticket says something else. I live in Great Neck, NY by the way

Answer:
 what are the two reasons? he said the sign had a warning. the ticket says you parked on private property. I'm missing why this is confusing.

yes, you can get a ticket if you're in the car. you're still parked. you being in the car doesn't make a difference.


Title: (MI) Possible Illegal Search

Question: [deleted]

Answer: Sure, your privacy was invaded.  But there's not really any legal action you can take here.  If you don't like it, move out.


Title: Hypothetically, I'm out on bail for a crime I didn't do, and I break into a house, get evidence that exonerates me, and give it to the police, is it admissible as evidence?

Question: [deleted]

Answer: It might be admissible as evidence for you for the original crime and for the new crime of burglary.


Title: In general, what are do's and dont's for prescribed medication and business trips?

Question: [removed]

Answer:
 There is absolutely NOT a principle that makes something legal just because it is necessary.

Take drug laws in other countries very seriously. You DO NOT want to be in a foreign country in jail.

If you can't legally bring your medication to a country and can't function without your medication don't go to that country. If your job requires you to go to that country you have a job incompatible with your medical reality. Or try to go for a few days without medication. But if you can't, see above.


Title: I sublease an apartment for $1250, my landlord leases for $1050. Is this legal?

Question: I live in Boulder CO. I've been under this lease since September and just found out what my landlord was paying today. Are they allowed to make money off me like this? If not what sort of options do I have to get my money back and renegotiate my sublease?

Answer:
 > Are they allowed to make money off me like this?

Yes.

>If not what sort of options do I have to get my money back and renegotiate my sublease?

None.Answer #2: The shop I go to buys their goods from the wholesaler for $2.00 each, I paid the shop $5.00 for it. Are they allowed to make money like this? Can I get a refund?


Title: 3rd party electric supplier violated our written contract and proceeded to nearly double my electric rate. What are my options? (CT)

Question:
Connecticut is a deregulated electric market...so you have to pay the public utility (CL&P) for taxes and transmission fees, but you are allowed to contract with 3rd party suppliers to get a better rate for electric generation. I did just that: I signed a 12 month fixed-rate contract with Direct Energy. Direct Energy violated our written agreement in two ways:
1) They did not provide fixed rate electricity for 12 billing cycles (a start-date error in the DE book-keeping resulted in a changed rate during the 12th billing cycle - so the apparent fixed rate for the 12th billing cycle was actually a 'blended' rate above the contracted rate)
2) They did not provide written notice of a rate increase (Direct Energy has produced a PDF with an address and a date on it, but it never showed up in my mailbox...i asked them how they know that they even sent it in the first place, and they said that they didnt get any returned/undeliverable mail notices from the USPS. Their evidence appears to be literally non-existent).

The "customer support" phone center employees consistently claim that no error was made. Same response from company FB and twitter teams.

I filed a complaint with the BBB...after a few back-and-forth messages, Direct Energy sent a verifiable lie about what was on my 12th bill to the BBB, and the BBB immediately closed my complaint "administratively" in favor of the company. I tried emailing them with proof of the lie, but the BBB basically ignored my request to review the data and reopen the complaint.

I have emailed the CT attorney general, but havent heard back.

The overcharge amount is somewhere between $100 and $200...and i have spent well over 20 hours of my otherwise discretionary free-time over the past few months trying to get the company to fess up and refund my money.

What options are left?
Topic:
Contracts

Answer:
 Forget the BBB.  They're useless and have fooled generations of people into thinking otherwise.  Participation is voluntary.  People now refer to it as "Yelp for old people".

Your attorney general is a good place to start, but I dunno what to do if you haven't got anywhere with them.

Small claims court is an option.  Writing a letter to your local state or US legislator/senator/representative.

I'm assuming that you've canceled and switched to a more reputable supplier.


Title: My ex is moving in with her new bf and he has a 12-soon-13 year old boy, my daughter is 9 and they are going to share a bedroom, im praying theres something i can do to prevent this.

Question:
Quick background before i focus on the issue because i feel like many other details just add to what i feel is now a legal issue.

Now my ex and i have been apart for about 8 years now, shes 25, moving in with a 50 year old, lets call him jim,  with a 12 year old boy, call him timmy. Currently she lives about 10 minutes from me which isnt bad, the place theyre moving to is 45 minutes away from me, which makes it more of a hassle for me, on top of her being 45 minutes away if she calls me needing me. It's pretty well gauged by most everyone that knows her shes a bad parent. Shes currently a stripper, makes 100k+ a year dating a guy making around the same, she does almost nothing for my daughter aside from buy her things, shes only actually herself had her 3-4 days since, late july. She already has her own house thats shes renting out to her stepdad and apparent 2nd boyfriend, who has been watching my daughter alone without my knowledge. She also stays at jims house while my ex is at work at night, and i have good evidence that they sleep in the same bedroom or possibly bed when shes there, completely without my knowledge, and my ex has my daughter so scared that she doesnt tell me what she does when mom has her, or thinks i have her, from things like when police have been at her house over domestic issues with jim, or that she gets left home alone up to an hour sometimes, or that my ex doesnt even actually have her at all but her stepdad or 1st/2nd/3rd? Bf idk at this point, hard to believe anything she says. My ex is a pathological liar that even makes my daughter lie to me while having my daughter think shes telling the truth. My daughter hasnt really mentioned anything about being over there since she started going, i knew about his kid, which i of course had a minor dad crisis over, but of course my ex convinced me hes a good kid and how smart he is and stuff, which worries me more because he could manipulate his way into something. My daughter hasnt brought him up much except a few times but i didnt sense anything off or she seemed upset.

Now to the main point. I have texts showing that they will be sharing a bedroom together, which if you make nearly 200k a year between the two living in northest Ohio then you can definitely afford a 3 bedroom apartment, or a 3 bedroom house for that matter. I know laws regarding this are kind of a per-case basis regarding living situations and wages. I also found something about if theyre 10 or above they need separate rooms. I know things are different if theyre biological siblings, but theyre completely unrelated. Im shocked that she even considers this being ok and would put our daughter in this situation simply for her relationship. Sadly shes always put herself first in the end. This is too big of an issue for me to give a blind eye too because my fatherhood red flag meter has exploded at this point. I never wanted to ever take her away from her mom because a daughter needs her mom, but at this point my current girlfriend is closer to her than my ex and literally calls her mom 2. Im extremely scared for not only what has possibly already gone on but what can happen if this is what ends up happening.

Answer:
 The law you are quoting is for Foster care kids. Not families.

You can go to court and petition a judge to change custody or some other order. You would need an attorney to decide what else you could request regarding sleeping situationsAnswer #2: Let's back up a minute. What is your *exact* court-ordered custody and visitation arrangement at present?

There are always two (or more) sides to every story, but taking your story as gospel, if it were me I'd hire an attorney and go to court to see if I could get the essentials of the arrangement reversed. Not because of the sharing-room thing, though I understand why that would worry some people, but because it sounds like you could give her a better parenting environment that someone who just "buys her things." Again, this is based solely on your account, but to do *anything* about this you're going to have to attempt to modify your custody arrangement.


Title: [Seattle, WA] My neighbors have threatened to sue if my Mother does not stop feeding the squirrels on our property.

Question: [deleted]

Answer:
 To me this reads like your neighbor attempted to make a reasonable request in the appropriate way and you were a jerk about it. Of course you can feed the squirrels on your property, but your property is affecting his property, and even the simple compromise of feeding the squirrels on the other side of the yard was rebuffed. Obviously, his recourse is indeed to try to sue you. Yes, they may win.Answer #2: > bigger part of me wants to hold my ground and protect my Mother's right to feed the wildlife on our property.

She doesn't have the right to create a nuisance that causes others to suffer damages.   They have a solid case against her. Unless she wants to lose a lawsuit I suggest she stop.Answer #3: > TL;DR: My neighbors dont like that my Mother feeds the squirrels and are threatening with a law suit. Do they have a case?

Yeah, they do. By leaving feed out, you're creating a nuisance. If squirrels cause actual damage to their homes or otherwise give rise to them having to pay expenses, then you could be held liable.


Title: Client pressured to disclose medical marijuana usage during massage at massage school (Colorado)

Question:
 Background:

* I am a graduate student of this school, participating as a client, in receiving a massage
* I have never disclosed my mmj registry \(which has been continuously active since prior to enrolling at the school\) to the school, or any of it's faculty, through any means
* I was sober at the time of the incident

I arrived to the school at the same time as the student therapist scheduled to work on me. We greeted each other and entered the school.

After filling out the proper paperwork, \(which I did not mention my mmj usage on\) and being briefed by the student as to what to expect, they took me to the area where students practice technique. It is a large room with temporary rooms made by clothesline and fabric.

I undressed completely, and went under the covers on the massage table. Shortly after the massage started, the student was asked to step outside of the room by an instructor. I could hear them discussing something on the other side of the fabric, then, the instructor, and maybe the student, came in to the room.

The instructor did not identify who they were, and asked if I felt all right to receive a massage. I told them I was fine to receive a massage.

The instructor then said they thought I smelled of marijuana. I told them that my roommate uses marijuana, and was also wondering if the school allows CBD oil massages, because I in fact did smell something similar while approaching the area I was to receive massage.

The instructor then said that they knew the smell was coming from me and if I was medically all right to receive a massage. At this point my heart is beating out of my chest and I can hardly talk because of how nervous/anxious etc I feel. I told them once more that I was fine to receive massage.

The instructor left the room, and the student completed the full massage. After the massage was over I told the student I felt jolted by the experience, drank some water, and drove home.

I feel as though my medical rights were violated by this instructor, as well as causing mental stress/trauma in the process.

What grounds do I have to stand on? Thank you in advance.

Answer:
 Telling someone they smell of marijuana doesn't violate any medical privacy rights.  Answer #2:  >I feel as though my medical rights were violated by this instructor

They weren't.Answer #3: Can you explain exactly what right you think was violated, and what remedy you think might be appropriate?


Title: Possibly being sued for blackmail. Advice greatly appreciated.

Question:
So a long story short and due to legal reasons, it's probably best not to tell to much. Basically a friend (former) has sorta had an affair (it's not quite that, but best not to tell too much info since I'm being sued for it). I told him if he didn't tell his significant other, I would. He later today told me he told his lawyer about this situation and is planning on suing me for blackmail.

This friend is not responding to my calls. Is this a valid claim? Does he really have a case with this or is this just an empty threat? I do know he really has spoken to a lawyer for other reasons which is why I'm taking this seriously. I'm hoping the claim that he is going to sue me is just an empty threat. I wanted to get advice before I have to shell out money for a lawyer over this issue.

EDIT: I live in central Pennsylvania.

Answer: No. Your friend has no damages to sue for civilly and you did not do anything criminal that he can file a police report for. Also, what you did is not blackmail. Now if you said that you would tell his wife if he didn't pay you $10,000 then that would be blackmail.


Title: I had my nose broken by stopping a fight at a church summer camp, is it possible 7 years later to have them pay for a portion of the reconstruction surgery ?

Question:
I know it's kind of a vain question, but I was 13 and my friend at the time pissed off some people, I stepped in and then I'm bashed in the face. Nobody at the church set my nose or did anything but give me an ice pack. Now I can barely breath out of my left nostril and my nose has grown in an unaesthetic way.

Is it possible to approach the church and say I have legal grounds for compensation because they failed to do anything for a medical injury? I'm still in touch with my friend and i'm sure he would vouch for me and be a witness. It's been 7 years, but I feel the church should contribute something towards an expensive facial surgery.

Edit: This happened in a California camp, though the church is located in Nevada.

Answer:
 A statute of limitations is the deadline for filing a lawsuit. Most lawsuits MUST be filed within a certain amount of time. In general, once the statute of limitations on a case “runs out,” the legal claim is not valid any longer.

The period of time during which you can file a lawsuit varies depending on the type of legal claim. Here are the statutes of limitations for some common types of legal disputes:

Personal injury: Two years from the injury. If the injury was not discovered right away, then it is 1 year from the date the injury was discovered.


Title: [CA] What can I do about terrible neighbors?

Question:
Our neighbors are renting the house next to the house I own with my fiance. They've been destroying our fence (*our* fence. It is on our property, not on the property line. 100% on our property) by putting their bikes and stuff on it, we suspect that they destroyed the windshield and passenger window on one of our cars but we can't prove it since we have no cameras. The car is up on the side of our house so unless someone came up into our driveway it had to have been them.

They constantly have fistfights where we've had to call the police because we are worried about the children in the house. They are building a separate house in the backyard (very badly) where two people are living back there and are frequently naked where we can completely see them. We've tried talking to one of the older women who we're pretty sure is the one renting the house and she tells us to mind our own business. Their dogs constantly break out of their yard/house and are over in our yard. They've tried to lure my dog over to our fence multiple times.

We've gone to the city to report the building in the backyard because it's too close to our property line/fence to be legal in California, but the city never followed up on our report.

Is there any way we can find information on the landlord and try to have them evicted? They are literally destroying the house (broken windows, the backyard is trashed, when I went over there to return their dogs the inside of their house is absolutely disgusting). Just recently, we had to have one of their cars towed because they parked across the front of our driveway and refused to move their car.

I googled the landlord and I have a tentative name/address but no number and I don't want to bother someone if it's not the right person. I'm honestly not sure what to do, I'm worried that they'll continue destroying our property or hurt my dog.

Edit: I forgot to add that there are also people living out of a car parked in the driveway as well.

Tl;dr: How do I find out for 100% certain who the landlord is, to try to get my neighbors evicted?

Answer:
 Keep calling code enforcement.  Talk to the building code people too.  Be polite but persistent.  If you get nowhere, go to the city council or county board of supervisors.

Do something to keep the dog away from the fence, even if that means putting up another fence (for now) inside your property line.


Title: Received a letter from UnitedHealthcare saying i owe them money?

Question:
I am located in the USA/NY.

I worked at a company that had to shutdown in November due to financial issues. While i was still working at said company i went to pick up my prescription and i used my insurance card leaving me only having to pay $10. Today i received a letter in the mail from UnitedHealthCare stating that i owe them $938.11 because my insurance expired on 10/31/2016. I assume this is as a result of the company that i worked for not having paid their bill before shutting down. I don't really know how it works to be honest.

I was never made aware by UnitedHealthcare that my insurance was no longer valid nor did the pharmacy let me know. UnitedHealthCare says "Regardless of how the situation arose, UnitedHealthcare Oxford is due reimbursement for claims paid after termination of coverage, and therefore your assistance is requested".

Do i have any other options besides paying?

Answer: If your insurance was no longer valid when you filled the prescription, you owe the full cost of the prescription.


Title: [Pennsylvania] Ticket for swimming in Nockamixon Lake.

Question:
Thank you for taking the time to read this, any advice is very much appreciated.  Yesterday, my girlfriend (24) and I (25) took a couple of pool floats and some beers to Nockamixon State park to float about 20 feet from shore and enjoy the sun.  About 30 minutes into our floating session the Game and wildlife management show up, telling us we are not allowed to swim in the park and alcohol is prohibited.  We tell them that we are sorry and we start to head for the shore to leave.  The g&w management call the park ranger to report the alcohol.  When the ranger shows up, he takes our licenses and starts writing up a ticket.  The ranger acknowledged the lack of signs posted about no swimming and no alcohol so he "cut us a break" with the tickets (also because we were fully cooperating).  He said he should be writing us two tickets each, one for swimming in the lake and one for the alcohol.  But, since we are fully cooperating, he will let us decide if we want an alcohol ticket, or the swimming ticket.  We opted with the swimming ticket.

Up until this point, I was fine with paying a swimming ticket, until I found out the cost.  The ranger said it is a $25 ticket (that is fair) however, the court processing fees will make it about $175 (absolutely not fair).

The reason I am posting here is because I need help understanding the process if we decide to fight the ticket.  To be completely truthful, we had no idea you could not swim in the lake.  There are no signs posted prohibiting swimming.              http://imgur.com/Zf67M3H   This is the only sign which does not address the swimming or alcohol.

If anyone has any advice please let me know.

Answer:
 Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Unless you can find a law that requires a sign to be posted (unlikely), you will lose.Answer #2: > To be completely truthful, we had no idea you could not swim in the lake.

Ignorance of the law is usually not a defense.  What statute or ordinance number were you charged with violating?


Title: (NJ) Renting a house with deteriorating lead paint all over. It was not disclosed by landlords when we signed lease. Need questions answered.

Question: [deleted]

Answer:
 Your landlord needs to fix this ASAP, and they should provide you alternate housing while the remediation is being done. If they refuse to act or don't act quickly, NJ does permit tenants to repair and deduct from their rent. You can also report your landlord to Department of Community Affairs, Bureau of Housing Inspection. Alternatively, because your house is uninhabitable, the law calls this a "constructive eviction" which allows you to break your lease free of penalty.

http://www.state.nj.us/dca/divisions/codes/publications/pdf_bhi/leadsafe_maint_for_tenants.pdf

http://www.state.nj.us/dca/divisions/codes/publications/pdf_lti/habitablity.pdfAnswer #2: In addition to what /u/MelkorHimself has written, [report them to the EPA](https://www.mofo.com/resources/publications/failure-to-disclose-lead-based-paint-hazards-in-residential-housing-may-result-in-civil-penalties.html). Landlords are, *by federal law*, legally required to disclose the presence of lead-based paint. Failure to do so results in a whole financial world of hurt.


Title: Painted a truck at my body shop the color the customer chose, now he claims he hates it & never agreed to that color, refusing to pay.

Question:
I work at an auto body shop & this client wanted to have the body work done on his truck & have it repainted. Really standard stuff. My boss hands him a book of paint samples to decide what color he wants & he chooses a purplish gray color. After about a week we have the bed of the truck painted & he stops by to see our progress & says he loves the color, giving us the green light to proceed. Fast forward to today we’re done with the truck & he comes to pick it up, but ultimately ends up throwing a fit saying he hates the color & that it’s way different because he saw it in the sun now instead of the shade where we were working before. My boss says he’ll repaint it as long as he pays upfront for the work we already did. Customer refuses to pay, saying we have to paint it for free or else he’ll sue. Does he have any leverage? Or are we correct because we had several samples before hand to make sure this was the correct color he wanted?

TL;DR customer picks color for new truck, we paint it, he hates it & demands we hand it over for free.

Answer:
 >Does he have any leverage?

Only if the paint color was beyond what a reasonable and prudent person would believe was the agreed upon color. For example, let's say he wanted it white and you painted it black. It's obviously not what was agreed to. Him having a perception of a shade different from what was printed in a book is not reasonable. I would hope your boss told him that the samples aren't going to be exactly the same but damn close.

If he doesn't pay, your boss should be putting a mechanics lean on the vehicle and holding it until paid.

I hope your shop runs like most and he signed a document stating he would pay and that the color chosen was on the paper work along with a sample.Answer #2: How expensive of a paint job are we talking about here? If it's fairly expensive, it my be beneficial to speak to an attorney about filing a mechanic's lien. Answer #3: He pays, either voluntarily or with a court order.Answer #4: Your boss needs to familiarize himself with the process for getting a mechanic's lien in Arizona.  Just search "Arizona mechanics lien automobile" and you'll find plenty of sources describing the process.Answer #5: This lien business works.  I got a BMW for a mechanic once over a dispute involving non-payment.  Guy essentially walked away rather than live up to his end of the deal.Answer #6: Get a mechanic lien he approved the work, you did it. Time to get paidAnswer #7: Next time, make the customer  sign a paint sample.


Title: Do I need to pay a lawyer for work done after I told her not to do it?

Question:
We are located in Massachusetts. I asked a lawyer if she would please review a Purchase and Sales agreement for my husband and I. She agreed. All of our correspondence was by email. She told me it would be done yesterday, but she was MIA and didn’t respond to any of my messages. We were on a deadline so I sent an email last night asking her to please disregard my previous emails as we no longer required her services.

I just got an email from her this morning apologizing for not responding yesterday and that she reviewed our document and would be sending something over. I replied, “As I said in my email last night, we no longer need your services.”

If she tries to bill us for this, do we owe her the money?

Thank you.

Answer:
 Yes, you owe her money. Answer #2: > If she tries to bill us for this, do we owe her the money?

If you told her to do it, and she did it before you told her not to do it, I would think so.


Title: My sister doesn't want to feed her baby

Question: So this is currently going on right now, my sister is been locked in her room with her baby and now the baby is crying out loud, my parents had enough and tried to grab it, she started to kick my mother so my parents just fall back because they say no to violence. And we don't know what to do right now.

Answer:
 if you're concerned about this kid's long-term welfare, call CPS. If the situation is an emergency, call 911 and ask for an ambulance to evaluate the child. However, there's a lot we're not hearing: how long has this been happening? Why is your sister refusing to feed her kid? When was her kid last fed? How old is the child in question? Why did you feel it was appropriate to describe a child as "it?"Answer #2: Document everything. Pictures, texts, note conversations and the time you had them.
Call CPS to start a paper trail. This is neglect.

She might have post-partum depression and isn't thinking or behaving rationally. She might need medicine and professional help. Do not assume you are dealing with a rational person.

If she is an immediate danger to herself or the baby, call the cops. They can have her committed to a hospital and get her help. Look up Baker Act laws . Your family might also be able to take her to the ER stating she is behaving erratically, had a baby, and needs help. This would also establish a paper trail.Answer #3: You need to call the police now. Then CPS if this keeps happening.


Title: 10 day notice to remove chickens Contra Costa County, CA

Question:
Summary: I live in a neighborhood that is an unincorporated area and we received notice to remove chickens from our property. We received multiple complaints from a neighbor who is not well mentally, one of which was 'the nastiest complaint ever made' to the county worker. The complaints have nothing to do with noise, smell, sight, etc. and it isn't an entire household, just one person in the household. The county is sympathetic to us but feel like their hands are tied and seem desperate to get the complaints to stop. Multiple families in the neighborhood have had chickens for years (there are also goats now as well). The chickens are pets and are not used for any commercial purposes and are extremely well cared for. Every other neighbor in close proximity is supportive of and enjoys our chickens (and eggs we give out). Every neighboring city and even the largest cities in the county (e.g. Concord) have laws that allow backyard chickens (I had backyard chickens in a neighboring city previously). The county is currently creating an ordinance to regulate backyard chickens (its current draft would allow us to have more than we currently have and we were considering downsizing anyways). There is no solid ETA for the ordinance to pass. Looking at the ordinances the county uses to justify the complaint and notice, there is nothing that explicitly states that backyard chickens are not allowed. When we spoke with the county and attempted to go over the codes (mostly to understand them but partially because they didn't seem relevant to us) used they refused to get into the fine points with us. To us it seems like they used generic "catch all" codes with no specific information. The county has no issue with the coop structure, just the chickens themselves. If they did have an issue with the coop we would be able to adapt space in the garage to accommodate them.

Questions:

* Is it possible to contest this?
* Is it possible to delay the 10 day notice to buy time for the ordinance or to contest?
* The ordinances for our zoning only state that the we cannot raise animals for commercial purposes and only "ordinary household pets" are allowed. There is no other information in the code as to what constitutes an ordinary household pet and again, these chickens are not used for commercial purposes. They all have names, most like to be held, hang out with us outside and inside, were raised by us from less than 2 days old (they are 8 months old now) and we never sold any eggs, feathers, fertilizer, offspring or anything derived from our chickens. We found a similar situation in another state (Maryland) where a judge ruled that backyard chickens were allowed because the ordinances for that county did not explicitly state what constitutes an ordinary household pet and because of that, chickens are not forbidden. We could probably find more cases as we didn't spend much time or effort on this one. Does this constitute legal precedence and could we use this to contest? How much would jurisdiction/location matter for this?
* If possible to contest, how could we contest it? What is the process?
* Maybe not relevant to this sub but is there any way we can help push/pass the ordinance sooner? (not expecting to get it passed before the 10 day notice but would like to not have it take months or years)
* Would it be possible to claim the chickens as emotional support animals to 'bypass' the ordinance? The chickens have been therapeutic for us.

This has been pretty devastating for us and we mostly just want to find a way to be heard and have some sort of legal agency. Thank you for your time and have a good day.

EDIT: spell check and grammar

EDIT 2: There seems to be a lot of off topic interest over the reasoning, motive and viability of attempting to certify our chickens as ESAs. I am trying to understand if having them registered would allow us to keep them legally in this circumstance because I could not find any information about if they would gain legal protection in this instance from the ordinance. The county moves very slow and we would prefer to not wait for the new ordinance to pass and we believe they have a positive medical effect on two ill family members. I am not here to discuss the context of our chickens for their viability being certified as ESAs, this is something we may or may not choose to pursue but if the certification won't grant them protection then there is no reason to try. If people are interested in chickens as therapy animals or their viability there is a decent amount of information online (iirc it is discussed in the r/backyardchickens subreddit as well).

Answer:
 > Is it possible to contest this?

Sure, if you can come up with a defense.  90% of what you wrote is totally irrelevant.  Your defense has to be based on the language of the ordinances involved.  Doesn't matter if your neighbors do it, doesn't matter that other cities allow it, doesn't matter that you really want them.

As to how and when, contact the issuing body for your options.

>  is there any way we can help push/pass the ordinance sooner?

You can offer to assist whoever's supporting or pushing the ordinance.  You can also contact your local representatives to impress upon them your opinion.  You can't force anything.

> Would it be possible to claim the chickens as emotional support animals

Yeah, that's a good idea.  Go ahead and abuse systems meant to help the truly suffering because you don't want to follow the law.  That's a supremely asshole move.  Don't ruin things for those that actually need help just because you want to.Answer #2: >The ordinances for our zoning only state that the we cannot raise animals for commercial purposes and only "ordinary household pets" are allowed.

Chickens aren't ordinary household pets, unfortunately.  Just because to you guys they *are* loved and well-cared for pets, doesn't mean the city considers them so.Answer #3: Given how dependent this is on local regulations and that the regulations seem to be somewhat vague, it seems to me the only way to get a good answer is to consult with a local lawyer.


Title: Threats to post private photos to Facebook

Question:
Hello.

I'm using a throwaway just in case.

A while back I was texting a person back and forth and they wanted to Skype to have some... Err... Fun.

I accepted because by now I somewhat trusted them (met them online) and then they showed that they found my Facebook, and that they had recorded some videos and photos.

I paid them to delete the photos, but then they showed that they made a fake Facebook account and they threatened to show my friends the pictures unless I gave them more money. Do such people normally follow through with that? I haven't given any more money and am waiting to see what happens.

If it helps, I'm in the US. Washington State.

Any advice?

Answer: Don't pay them. They will just keep asking for money. You're only renting silence. They may or may not make good on their threat.


Title: mad costumer is writing bad reviews/libel online and fake ads on craigslist what can i do?

Question:
i have a small restaurant in california and a mad costumer is writing bad reviews/libel online after she did not get a money refund. Ill summarize what happened as shortly as possible: the said costumer came in one night to order food and called the following day saying the order was wrong we disagreed and told them to bring the food in. The husband of the costumer came in and we proved to him that the order was not wrong but we still gave him free food in exchange however the wife(the one writing the reviews) called while he was still in the restaurant demanding for a refund and threatening with bad reviews, we were confused but left it at that thought the husband would talk to her. skip forward an hour or so she starts writing 1 star reviews on facebook google and yelp accusing us of giving them raw food and even accusing us of having roaches in our kitchen now since then i have replied to her reviews and told her that she should research what libel means because all her reviews contain it and it is a basis for a lawsuit after my reply she changed her roach comment  but keeps saying we gave her raw food which is also a lie and most recently we found out that someone posted an ad on craigslist saying that we are giving out free food and i am 100% sure it was her one because the way she writes and secondly because the contact name on the ad is the same as the one on the phone where she called us from. can i take any actions towards her? if so what kind of proof do i need or are these cases to small and complicated to prove any help would be appreciated feel free to ask me for more info
Topic:
Computer and Internet

Answer: I read with anticipation to learn what an irate person in a costume had to do with a potential restaurant order mix-up, and then I realized costumer is supposed to be customer.  Guess I'll have to wait another month for weird costume questions to arrive.


Title: Someone submitted a claim against me with my insurance company

Question: I received a call from my auto insurance company today. They informed me that another insurance company contacted them with a claim on my vehicle. They are stating that I was in a collision with another person but that did not happen. I would not be worried about the false claim, except that I hit a curb in my neighborhood and got a flat tire the day before this person claimed I hit them. I called my insurance and had roadside assistance send a tow truck as I did not have a spare. On top of all that, I have previous damage to my car from long ago. I am afraid they will come back and try to say the old damage was from this co-called "collision" that never happened. Any advice to give me peace of mind? Thanks in advance.

Answer:
 I have good news for you.   Your insurance company is not going to want to pay money out for a false claim.  They have the resources to investigate the nature of this claim against you; and will get to the bottom of this.

That being said, there is the possibility you somehow caused an accident of some kind, and were unaware.  Talk with your insurance company and see what you can figure out.


Title: Can you sell products named after, but totally not related to, Harry Potter Spells/Chapters?

Question: I think the answer is yes, but it doesn't hurt to ask. Thank you! :)

Answer: Likely not.  Those names themselves are likely protected, unless they're significantly generic.


Title: Demo machine was left when I sold business, company wants it back.

Question:
 State is PA.

Last year around August I had a company deliver a DEMO machine to my restaurant. Couple guys came with the machine, demoed it to me and then said I can keep it for 3-4 weeks to play with it. After about 2 weeks I decided it wasn’t going to work for me so I contacted the one guy I was dealing with and told him it wasn’t working out (thanked him for everything) and advised him to come get the machine. Did not hear from him even after sending a couple emails and leaving voicemails.

Machine weighs about 500lbs and costs around $10,000 brand new. Not exactly easy to carry or move around.

Fast forward to November and I contacted him again but this time I told him I had sold the store and the new owner was taking over on the first of January 2018 and to please come get the machine. Still never heard from him.

I left the machine there when the store was sold and told the new owner about it and he knew the story.

2 days ago I get an email from the salesman and he said sorry for the delay and asked when he can pick up the machine (this is about 8 months later). I have not responded to him yet so they don’t know anything. Wanted to find out my options before I contact him.

I contacted the new owner and he sold the machine for $500 🙄 and it’s gone.

Thinking about it, I should of had him sign a piece of paper saying it wasn’t his to sell and blah blah blah but I didn’t.

Am I still on the hook for this machine? What are my options? I did NOT sign anything with the salesman, and no payments were made or anything like that. No verbal agreements were made. Just came to show me how it works and then said to “play” with it for a month.

Thank you

Answer:
 Aaah...  A Bailment case.

I don't see how you have any liability.  The salesman negligently left the machine at the store even though he knew the store was going to be sold and even though (a) he had been instructed multiple times to go get it, and (b) it was well past the time he was supposed to pick it up.   You acted reasonably by informing the sales person of the transfer of the business, asking him to retrieve the machine and telling the new owner about it.

The new restaurant owner, though...   That's a different story.  The machine wasn't his, even though it was apparently abandoned.  His obligation would have been to turn the machine in to the PA State Treasury as abandoned property.  Instead, he sold it -- that's a conversion, and he owes the company the fair market value of the machine (less his own damages -- a reasonable storage cost).
Answer #2: If the new owner of your business sold property that didn't belong to him, especially when he knew that the machine was someone else's property and they were going to be in touch to pick it up, then the new owner is on the hook to make the company whole.

Forward all communication to the new owner.  If you're sued, show up to court.  If you're summoned to small claims, you don't need a lawyer.  The company may choose to do this if a lawyer would cost them too much, and cap their damages at the small claims limit.  If you're sued and summoned to civil court, get a lawyer.


Title: Scheduled maintenance entered my apartment home today for annual work and I had a security camera running. They called me a jackass for christmas lights and made the comment "hey think we can get this kid out of here, today?"

Question:
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Topic:
Landlord Tenant Housing

Answer: Keep a copy of the recording, just in case. But since you've suffered no damages, simply report on their unprofessionalism.Answer #2: The video may be useful evidence if they ever attempt some sort of constructive eviction.


Title: Our mother died last month. Children of her ex from 25 years ago want their share.

Question:
This is in Oregon.

My sister and I were born in 1970 and 1972. When we were in high school in the late 80s our father was killed and our mother remarried in a marriage that lasted a little under two years before he too died. She inherited a sum total of an old corolla and a few hundred in his bank accounts. At the time her new husband’s kids sent legal demands to ensure they were on her will. She told them in no uncertain terms to get out of her life.

She stayed out of relationships until the mid 2000s when she found another love I’ll call Will and married in 2008. He’s the coolest guy and like the dad neither of us had as adults. We’re not related by blood but we want the best for him and everything mom owned went to him with no issues from us.

However the children of the man Mom married in 1989 have found out and are sending letters from their lawyers. They want mom’s assets divided up six ways so they get 4/6 and we get 1/6 and Will gets nothing.

Do they have any legal leg to stand on? What’s the proper minimal response to this that leaves us in the clear? Should we find a lawyer of our own?

Answer:
 Unless she adopted them they can pound sand. But if they had an attorney write the letter, then you respond in kind and have a probate attorney tell them to pound sand, legally Answer #2: I don’t think they have much of claim to her estate, especially if they aren’t mentioned in her will. But you’ll absolutely need to retain a probate attorney because the estate is being disputed.Answer #3: I'm sorry for your loss. Did you mom have a will? Did she legally adopt these children?Answer #4: If she has a will and they are not named, then no. If no will, then most likely still no. Just have the attorney doing the estate respondAnswer #5: Does Mom have a Will? If she does and she did not "remember" these children in her Will, they do not have a claim to the estate.

If Mom died intestate (no Will), these children are only heirs-at-law if they were adopted by your Mother. I don't see that in your fact pattern.

I agree with other comments that this is a shakedown. If there was a legitimate claim to the estate, this so-called "attorney" would have filed a proper will contest in the probate court.

Your attorney should write a letter in response advising that they are entitled to nothing and explaining why. It's possible that these folks misrepresented facts to their lawyer and once he knows what is going on, he will back off.

It's still possible for these folks to officially contest your Mom's Will, but they are not likely to be successful unless a) they can show that Mom lacked capacity (due to illness or a medical condition, e.g. Alzheimer's), AND b) there was a prior version of the Will that left them something.


Title: Jest wondering if this is legal?

Answer: Well, I’ve been wearing masks for years before COVID because of a medical condition. *If* he enforced this, it would absolutely be discrimination against a protected class (disability) and would be illegal. Besides, the ADA requires accommodations be made as long as they are reasonable and don’t put other customers at risk, and I would hardly consider letting someone wear their own face mask to be risky to others or creating a hardship for the owner. Masks aren’t just for COVID, and this policy would be just as illegal as requiring people with canes to pay $5 extra.


Title: Mental disorder redding, ca

Question:
I have a few mental disorders. In the case that I got arrested what rights do I have? What if I had a panic attack?
Topic:
Criminal Law

Answer:
 You have the same rights as everyone else.

If the police feel you need medical care they will take you to the hospital. If you go to jail you will be seen by a nurse. Answer #2: So I just skimmed your post history and your mental illnesses are pretty evident. The police are not going to accommodate you unless you have documentation of your illness, and maybe not even then.

Step 1 is to seek help and realize that the world doesn't owe you a living, or anything else.


Title: My friend is being wrongly accused of possession of cocaine

Question:
A few weeks ago me and her both got caught carrying illegal drugs. She got caught with a misdemeanor amount of weed and I got caught with codeine(a controlled substance) and we got the police report today and she’s being charged with having coke and not weed

What can we do about this. Is there any way we can get the cop fired

Cops here don’t wear body cams and he only 3 at the scene of the crime were my friend, the cop, and me

Answer:
 No that's not what's happening. What is happening is a clerical error, which will be corrected by the criminal defense attorney she hires to defend her from the criminal charges she's facing. Answer #2: > Is there any way we can get the cop fired

&#x200B;

No. You were in possession of drugs. This might be a clerical error, or your friend might have had other drugs that you didn't know about.


Title: [Detroit] Work abusing my minor working rights?

Question: So to start off im 16 and have a workers permit and currently working at a corporate chain restaurant as a host, foodrunner, and bus boy for the past 6 months. The problem is I never get breaks. At all. Today for example i worked 7  hours straight and in my permit it says a 30 minute lunch break. But i never got it. This repeatedly happens every week. I once worked 11 hours without anything. I've asked and all my manager said is this is the restaurant business and we don't get breaks. Another thing too is they have me stay out till 11 o'clock which is past the work permit hour limit. I've been looking for another job but still haven't found much luck. I wish i could just quit but i have bills to pay and what not is there anything i can do in the mean time? i have all my Employee Clock Out receipts that prove hours I worked past. What can i do about this?

Answer:
 > all my manager said is this is the restaurant business and we don't get breaks.

I was under the impression that this was generally true. However, I believe that the [rules for minors] (http://michigan.gov/documents/mde/Youth_Employment_Packet_383330_7.pdf) trumps any break exception that restaurants normally get for their employees.


Title: Colorado trip gone bad

Question:
Okay so excuse my poor typing, trying to type this out really quickly.

A month ago I went on a road trip to Colorado with my girlfriend and her friends. My girlfriend’s friends boyfriend offered to take his car. We live all the way in Texas. As we’re driving to Colorado, he ask if me if I can drive, to relieve him from the wheel. So I did, I get pulled over 30 min into driving. Officer tells me the break light is off, and that the car has no license plates. When he asks for license and registration, he notices the car has no registration and no insurance. I’m freaking out, I get pulled into the front seat of the cop car and start getting interrogated. I tell the officer I did not know anything about the car not having any of these issues. I was just doing a favor for the guy. Turns out the guy had bought the car off Craigslist for $400 and had not done any of the proper paper work for the car. Which he’s had for months. Officer let’s us go without towing the car. But he gives me three citations. As we keep driving the Colorado the car eventually gets towed, while his girlfriend was driving. Since she ends up getting pulled over in Colorado. He was not able to pay off all the fees to recover his car in Colorado.

After a week we get back to Texas, and I try paying off the citations which were $600. I ask him if he can at least give me $400 dollars. He says he can’t, so I ask for $250.  I tell him a specific date and he says it’s fine. He doesn’t end up paying me that date and I tell him to just give it to me his next pay period, since I know he had to get a new car and what not. He’s now saying he doesn’t “owe me jack shit”, in his words. That it was not his fault that I had to pay those tickets.

I’m just wondering if I have a chance of wining a small claim in court. I would be asking for the full $600 and whatever I have to pay to put the filing in motion. I have proof of him agreeing to pay me $250 by a certain date twice via messaging.

Please help
Topic:
Small Claims Procedure

Answer:
 You're on the right path. No one can tell you your chances of winning though.

On the one hand, it's his car, but on the other, it's the driver's responsability to make sure that all equipment is in place and that the car is registered and insured.Answer #2: Wait you didn't notice the car had no licence plate before you got in?Answer #3: >As we keep driving

Wait, what? you kept driving in a car with no license plates, no registration, and no insurance?

I can *maybe* understand that you naively assumed everything was okay when you first got the car, but after you knew for a fact that the car was unregistered, had no plates, and was uninsured, it's completely insane to keep driving it.


Title: My dad forces me to work

Question:
Hello reddit! I’m 13, and my dad owns his own landscaping company in Ohio. Over the COVID-19 break, he has forced me to work for him. I do get paid, $10hr, but I don’t want to work anymore. If I tell him I do t won’t to, he says too bad. I have just started high school football practices, and have been very sore from them, hence why I don’t want to work. If I don’t go with him, I get my internet to my PC shut off, my phone taken, and am told to clean all day. Any help to get me out of this situation would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks.

EDIT: There’s no child labor laws that can help me? I am too young to be operating power equipment, but still have to.

EDIT 2: He has an employee that is almost 40, but he still makes me go, even though I’m under legal age to work in Ohio(14), and also do not have a workers permit

Answer:
 Welcome to life youngin.

It’s all work from here on out.Answer #2: He is not obligated to let you play football.  If you are being fed and cared for, and your basic needs are met, then you have no leg to stand on.

He is your parent.  He is parenting you.  It could be muuuuuch worse.

This is not a legal problem.

Also ... HIS phone.  HIS pc.  HIS internet.Answer #3: Sorry, you have 0 legal recourse.

Your parents are in charge of you until 18.

There's nothing you can do


Title: Can you fight the law itself? NV Marijuana DUI: Was not high, but over blood limit due to chronic medical use.

Question:
TLDR: Friend was charged with a DUI for marijuana and scored above the max number on the blood test. However, she wasn't high (hadn't smoked for 6 hours). Her numbers were high because she is a chronic user, not because she was impaired.

My friend was pulled over for having an out headlight. The officer smelled marijuana and proceeded to do a field sobriety test.

My friend felt she was doing well on the test, but it was a cold night so she was shivering, she also has a diagnosed anxiety disorder and she said she felt a panic attack coming up due to the circumstances. One of the times the officer had her walk the line she tripped. On the official report the officer said she did poorly, but he did not tell her she failed it.

She was arrested and a blood test was done. Her results showed 14 nanograms per ml, the law is 2 nanograms per ml. However, my friend insists this and I don't think she would lie to me, SHE WAS NOT HIGH. The last time she smoked was about 6 hours before.

She is a medical marijuana patient and uses it to treat seizures. She smokes chronically, basically every day. She smokes in her car so she doesn't have to do it in her moms house/be outside in the cold.

From what I've read (though I can be misunderstanding) chronic users can have high levels of it in their blood, even if they haven't smoked that day. I smoke chronically, but even though I haven't had any in over 24 hours, I think I likely would still score similar blood results.

In CA they dropped the nanograms for blood laws for this very reason; you cannot get an indication of whether not someone is high/impaired based on those numbers.

I found many articles of people in similar situations (wasn't pulled over for driving poorly, officer smelled marijuana, tripped during field test, etc.) and the charges being dropped.

However, those were in CA, this is NV (and rural anti-pot NV at that). She's spoken to two lawyers. One said it doesn't matter if she was impaired or not, the law is the law. The other said they'd be willing to fight it, but they were not optimistic.

She was also charged with possession of drug paraphenelia (a brand new pipe that hadn't even been smoked in, they didn't even take it as evidence and both lawyers said this charge will almost for sure get dropped). With two misdemeanors she can request a jury trial.

Is there any possibility of her not having to face a DUI on her record? Her job's policy is immediate termination for a DUI.

Answer: I wouldn't feel very positive if local counsel does not feel positive --- but another pressing issue here for her is she wants to start an argument over this (which can probably be handled with some sort of alternative punishment (not jail, etc.)), and this argument will reveal that she is treating chronic seizures with medical marijuana (I know you didn't say chronic, but if she is prescribed medical marijuana for the condition, then it is more than rarely or occasionally), yet she is driving as well.....definitely not a position I would be looking to put myself in as counsel.


Title: Coffee shop trying to take 50% of all employees tips

Question:
Hey guys, I work for a coffee shop in Tennessee. We get paid weekly and our tips are added to the check at the end of the week. The owner is talking about taking 50% of our tips for the business and dividing the rest of the tips based on hours worked. Is this legal?

Tennessee seems to have some confusing laws regarding tips and it looks like they follow the federal laws regarding tip share but I’m curious if it’s legal to take half of all tips for the business. I’m wanting to understand this better before I approach the owner or see if I should just start looking for a better job if they are going to do shady things like this.

Answer: Tennessee follows federal laws about tipping. Tip pooling is allowed as long as you earn at least $30 a month in tips and don’t fall under federal minimum wage after pooling. Tip pooling can only include people who normally receive tips. Managers or owners taking tips is illegal.


Title: Can I hold a company responsible for permanent long term effects of a medicine I was prescribed?

Question:
I wasn't really sure where else to ask this question other than on this sub, so forgive me if this is the wrong place.

When I was about 15 years of age I took a medicine for my acne (I do not want to say the specific medicine because I am not aware if that would be against the rules), that had some serious side effects, but I had gotten a blood test every month while taking the drug that said I would be fine and there was nothing unusual. It gave me side effects of serious dry skin, depression, anxiety, sensitive skin to sunlight contact, and now years later I am starting to develop serious IBD.

The doctors had told me that these side effects will just happen while taking the medicine and should go away when I stop taking it, but its years later and I can honestly say they seem like they have progressed, especially the IBD, which my family has no known history of having it.

Before taking the medicine I had an okay job working at a restaurant, but I was still happy doing it. I started taking the medicine right in the middle of all of this. I was fine until up to about 4 months on the medicine, which was nearing the end of when I am supposed to stop taking it anyways. After a while it got extremely hard to talk to the people I was serving and got nervous around my boss who I had know for months and months. Got to the point where I could not talk to anyone there without having a panic attack. I ended up not being able to work there 2 months later off of the medicine, because I was worried for my mental health, but my boss said I was welcome back anytime and hoped me the best.

The effects are supposed to wear off slowly, but not this slowly. I am now 19 years of age and they are supposed to be long gone by now. I still have progressive anxiety every day now along with depression. My nails still decay and form air pockets on them. The worst out of all of these is the IBD, it keeps me up every night and can feel it sometimes during the day, and it is extremely painful. I have not talked to anyone about the symptoms because I am honestly so anxious these days after taking it, that it is hard to get myself out there anymore. It has made me lose a lot of trust for my doctors, because they always told me that I would be fine and eventually the side effects would leave a year or so after taking it, but four years later the symptoms have only progressed.

I feel like it has almost made me incapacitated and feel like I lost my true self who I used to be. My family and friends have noticed the change in me. I used to get happy and excited over little things, and always had courage to talk to people, but it seems that after that it has faded away. I know it sounds depressing, because it is, and i'm not posting this to get a "i'm so sorry this happened" and make people feel bad, that is not my intention, so please do not bash me, I truly need legal advice. I just want to know if there is something I can do about this, such as taking legal action against the company distributing the drug, because it has made me a living potato and am struggling to do anything in life anymore. I cannot afford all of these other medicines anymore from the long-term side effects it has given me, but without them I will be completely useless. If I could go back, I would have never taken it and just dealt with my acne.

If anyone has any advice on what I can legally do to take action against this company, or if I am too late I would just like to know if it is even worth pursuing something like this? This evil medicine has been around for a while and a lot of people experience similar side effects, and a lot have even taken their own lives as a result to taking it.
Topic:
Medicine and Malpractice

Answer:
 Do you have any proof that the med caused these symptoms?

You would have to get a doctor willing to testify to that.

Are you seeing a mental health provider currently? I highly recommend that you reach out to one and start seeing them regularly for awhile before continuing to pursue this.


Title: Can plumber/contractor sue for bee stings?

Question:
I have an unimproved rural property in Washington state in a community that uses shared wells. I hired a company to connect my lot to the water line that runs between my property and a neighbor’s property along the street. The plumber came out to do the work while I was out of state. Before he could get started, he backed into a bee hive and got stung so badly he had to go to the hospital according to his company work coordinator. Can he sue me for this?

Relevant facts:
I had no knowledge of bees or a hive in any tree or bush on my property.

The company isn’t sure or forthcoming about where exactly the initial bee exposure took place.

The plumbing company works very closely with the community and the community has to consent to all new water connections.

Whenever I call the plumbing company I get disconnected. They claim it’s due to a bad connection.

The community has already tried to provide me with less plumbing work for the same price that all the other property owners paid, attempting to alter the plumber’s contract with me to include less infrastructure, and imploring me to hire a second plumber to finish the job.

There was a delay on the plumber going out to my property even though I paid for the work already.

As a single black female I am the first black person to buy property in the town, and a neighbor told me that some of the other neighbors don’t want people like me to move in. A past owner is said to have actively driven away black visitors, telling neighbors “no black people” in the community.

I have already spent $20,000 on this endeavor. Should I lawyer up, too?

This all has me wondering whether I be better off to just sell the place and give up on camping on my own property in the PNW.

Thank you for any insight you can offer!

Answer:
 Have you been training bees to attack contractors?

You're generally not liable for this, if they approach you with a lawsuit then just pass it on to your homeowner's insurance and they should sort it out for you.


Title: Long story short, I had sex, the person claims he used a condom but I found out he didn't. Im worried about std's/sti's... hiv :(

Question:
Los Angeles, CA. I (female) had vaginal sex with a certain man for the first time on 12/27/2015. Beforehand, I had discussed in detail my fear of catching any kind of std's/sti's and that I wanted to be very safe and use a condom. He agreed, saying that he was very safe and ddf and that he had just gotten tested last month, as well as gets tested regularly. While having sex, several times his *ahem* penis would come out/he would pull it out? and I would attempt to reach down to grab it to guide it back in. The first 1 or 2 times I tried this he would quickly guide my hand away so that my hand didn't come into contact with his penis and he would be the one to grab it. (I assumed he just didn't like other people touching it). It is just habit with me to do that though (I would do that with my ex) and so one time I guess I reached down faster than he anticipated and grabbed what felt like a penis WITH NO CONDOM ON IT. When I asked him if he had a condom on he replies yes. He gets up at one point to take a break, I happen to look down and see NO CONDOM on him. I ask him, are you sure you had a condom on? He says yes and claims he had just taken it off when we stopped. I watch him put a condom on before we have start to have more sex and he pulls the same guiding hand away thing he was doing before. Starting to get suspicious, I decide on the next break to make sure to look down really quickly to make sure he was wearing a condom. Sure enough, next time he gets up, I look down really fast AND THERE IS NO CONDOM. He insists he had just taken it off, but I would have seen him do that. We didn't have any more sex after that obviously and I leave. I went home, tried not to worry about it, but then the morning of 12/29/2015 I wake up to a bunch of vaginal discharge similar to when my ex and I would have no-condom sex (what I learned was called flow back? (the semen gradually dripping back out of the vagina within 72 hours of having no-condom sex)). I am not a gyno so I'm not an expert and maybe it was something other than flow back that was coming out of me, but feeling super freaked out, I decide to be safe and I go to get tested for std's (including HIV) that day. If I end up catching anything, what are my legal options? And, assuming I have any legal options, what should be my course of action at this point? I saved the pants that I was sleeping in the morning I woke up and had the flow back on the crotch, but I don't know if it might break down or anything so should I put it in the fridge? Should I take it to some kind of lab where they can test the semen (if it is semen) in case they can try to find dna and keep it on file in case I ever have to go to court? I have saved all the texts I have from this guy where he claims he is ddf and had just gotten tested for std's and specifically, where he claims he has gotten tested for HIV every 3 months for atleast the past 9 months. Some major problems are: My ex who I thought I could trust (the one who until a week before 12/27/2015 I was still having sex with (with no condoms)) I learned had cheated on me, and I didn't get tested for std's between sleeping with him cheating and my sleeping with the 12/27/2015 guy. Possibly another potential problem: since 12/27/2015 guy I have slept with a 3rd guy but with a condom (for the whole time I am sure). What are my options? And if I have any, what steps do I need to take at this point?

***Update: 1/2/2016 8:04 a.m. my time. I just got back from the police station. They told me that I would have to go to the police station over by the guy's house (I don't live near him and apparently the police near me say it is not in their jurisdiction) but they were nice enough to hear my story to give any advice they could since they said the other police station would operate in a similar (if not same) manner. They said it doesn't sound like there is a rape case here and that I would probably only have a civil case, and that's only if I were to catch something like HIV. So, while I agree with panic_bread that sneaking off a condom during sex without permission was a non-consensual sexual act and should count as sexual assault, so far it doesn't look like the state of California agrees :( I will update after I go to the other police station and let you guys know what they say. Also, in case anyone is in any kind of similar situation, I was told by the police to stick the pants in a brown bag and put it in the freezer.

***Update: 1/3/2016 3:38 p.m. my time. After seeing the posts about PEP and doing some research, I went to try to get some from a doctor yesterday. The doctor didn't seem to be too knowledgeable about the subject and had to consult with the other doctor and ended up writing me a prescription for Combivir, which has Lamivudine and Zidovudine. Since I had never heard of it, I decided to come home and do some research on it before/if I decided to take it. After I came home I saw the other post about Out of the Closet, and decided to wait on making a decision on the Combivir until after the Out of the Closet test since it was already pretty late at night and they would open soon anyway. I took the test, it came back negative, but the lady said it is the same test they give at Planned Parenthood, just that they give the results a lot quicker, so that even if I caught anything from 12/27/2015 guy it was too early to tell anyway. However, she said there is a different test I could take that can tell a lot sooner than 3 months and is supposedly very accurate. She said it's called the HIV p24 antigen test and I read that it can tell on average 10-14 days after infection. I tried to go to the place she suggested that does that test for free immediately after seeing her, but they and all their branches were closed so I have to wait till tomorrow. (For anyone who needs it, they are called AHF Healthcare Centers.) Also, she said it was way too late to start taking the PEP :(

Answer: In response to your edit.  I certainly understand why you feel violated. Don't take our disagreement with him as any indication that we think you should feel otherwise. Our problem is that he is dispensing advice based on his personal feelings when he should be dispensing advice based on law.


Title: My sister keeps loaning our parents' car to her loser boyfriend, who has a DUI

Question:
My parents bought a car for my younger sister (25). Her boyfriend (36) has two DUIs from about a decade ago that he has not expunged, so he is not legally allowed to drive. However, he often uses her car-- with her permission-- to drop his kids off at school several towns away. (He shares custody with his ex wife, so their custody arrangement requires this, even though he lives in a different city.)

I (28) told my sister that this is a very bad idea, but she continues to loan him her car.  I am really worried about what could happen if he is pulled over. No doubt, he will get in huge legal trouble-- but so could my parents, and my sister. The car is in my parents' name. What would the legal repercussions be for everyone if he is pulled over? Do you have any other advice to get her to stop loaning him her car, or get him to stop borrowing it?

We are located in Minnesota.

Answer:
 Tell your parents.

If the car is in their name, this is their problem.Answer #2: Pulled over is obnoxious. Your sister will be the belle of the ball when he gets into an at-fault accident and hurts someone because (1) insurance will immediately deny the claim for several reasons and (2) your parents will **instantly** be sued and will likely lose. Discussing bankruptcy with people who are on the verge of retirement because their daughter decided that her boyfriend was more important than their collective lives' work is always interesting dinner conversation.

If the car is in their names they should grow up, take the car back, and report it stolen if your sister or her boyfriend take it again.Answer #3: His custody arrangement could be affected if he's caught. He's driving without a license and that could be considered endangering the kids.Answer #4: Sounds like she knows what the legal consequences are and is choosing to ignore them. But this is your parents' battle to fight. It's their car; they're the ones who have to tell her no.


Title: [CA] Can I bring a pig with me downtown?

Question:
If I tame a pig like a dog, put a harness on it like a dog, and get it to "heel" like a dog, will I be able to take it around town?

This pig wouldn't be living in the city. It'd be living in a place where farm animals can legally have residency.

Answer: most cities have bylaws prohibiting livestock.


Title: IL - Landlord is intentionally risking mother's life to force her to move out of apartment.

Question:
So my mother, brother and I have been living in a duplex for 2 years now, and the other side of the building has been rented out to a man who smokes indoors. Now, my mother is fatally allergic to smoke, as it causes her lungs to close and makes breathing extremely difficult or in worse cases impossible without the aid of medicine.

My mother has made her medical condition perfectly clear to  my landlord, and yet she rented the place out, specifically telling him its okay to smoke indoors. The smoke seeps into our side of the building, and my mother gets severe second hand smoke as a result.

Now, I have no solid proof, but the fact that my landlord was told several times about my mother's medical condition, and that she (my landlord) has lamented the fact that she is charging us so little for rent, makes me think this is her way to force us out so she can charge even more for new renters here. She cannot legally evict us, because we have been great tenants.

I know the obvious answer is "just move", but the fact my landlord is risking my mother's life just so she can charge more money for our place after we move is morally (and possibly legally, I'm not sure) wrong.

Not sure what I can do here, aside from the obvious relocation.

Thank you.

Answer: Unless it says in your mother’s lease that there will be no smoking in the adjacent unit, is no legal requirement requiring the landlord to accommodate your mother’s smoke sensitivity.


Title: I’ve been summoned to jury duty

Question: Hello everyone, I just got mail summoning me to jury duty later this month. I’ve never had jury duty before (22 years old). I went to court two months ago for a traffic ticket, did that somehow trigger this jury duty? Tbh I don’t even know if I’m registered to vote. I am a US citizen born and raised. Can someone give me more info about this situation? Kind of confused at the moment.

Answer:
 Follow the instructions and go to court/call in when asked. Really not much to understand. Answer #2: Jury duty is triggered by registering to vote, not your traffic ticket.  Answer #3: Just show up at the correct place at the correct time.  Try not to dress like a complete mess (it's part of the court system after all).

Bring a book or tablet (maybe even a laptop).  You might be doing nothing but sitting around twiddling your thumbs for 6 hours or so.  You can usually call the court or visit their website to see what you can and cannot bring.

You may or may not get selected to sit on a jury for an actual trial that day, or another day, usually in the same week.


Title: Major news channel wants to use audio from my podcast againts my will

Question:
Me and a group of friends (All Danish) created a podcast, and uploaded it to an account on SoundCloud. A major Danish news channel now says they are going to use audio from the podcast in a documentary, which we do not want them to do. Is there anything we can do to prevent it, or do they have the rights to do it?
Topic:
Non-US

Answer:
 I'm no expert but Article 13 might actually work in your favour here. If you created that content then it's your property, they shouldn't be able to use that in any form of transformative media. Think pewdiepie getting DMCA takedowns for using videos from TikTok. Would be worth looking in to.Answer #2: What /u/Doulich is describing in his or her last paragraph is a [fair use.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use)  I don't know anything about Denmark, but if its fair use laws are like the US's, then the news channel would probably be able to play part of your podcast if it's part of a segment they're running about it - if it's newsworthy and it's the subject of their segment.  It would not be a fair use to take part of your podcast and use it to advertise the channel, or to host the podcast sound file.

/u/Doulich mentions registering the copyright.  This is a good idea if you are in the US and you want to seem threatening, and it's pretty cheap; you can do this in the US at copyright.gov.  However, it doesn't let you sue them for "punitive damages". What it would let you do is sue an infringer for statutory damages, meaning you don't have to prove the infringer made a profit or how much profit that was.  That's all US law - if you're Danish and the station is Danish then nobody cares about the US law on this and you don't have to register the copyright to the podcast (nor is there any way to do so).