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

    December 31, 2020

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

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

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:06 AM PST

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

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    Employer deducted money as GIFT for boss out of my paycheck

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 07:16 AM PST

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

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    Power of Attorney is abusing their power, what can I do? (Elder abuse and Neglect)

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 04:16 PM PST

    My parents friend (let's call her Anne) who is in her 90s recently suffered a fall at her home and was admitted to the hospital. The hospital contacted the person holding power of attorney (Bob), and he relocated her to a seniors home on the grounds of either mental incapacity or a hoarding issue (the details are unclear).

    Here are the issues:

    - The senior, Anne, is of sound mind. She has excellent memory, remembers the smallest details about my parents like the ages of their kids and their birthdays, drives her own car, and takes care of her own finances. She has excellent recall and can tell many stories from her life, recall places, events, music, movies from 60-70 years ago in great detail. She's also in good physical health.

    - She does not have a hoarding issue. My parents run a renovation company and retained Anne for 4 years as a client. She received a bequeathment of most of the possessions from her mothers property and was storing them in her home, along with a bunch of valuable antiques from a shop she closed down. She requested a complete decluttering and re-oganization, which we completed on the first floor of her two storey home. She planned on completing the same process next summer for the 2nd floor.

    - She hasn't been in contact with her PoA (Bob) for over the past 15 years.

    - She doesn't have children and is a widow. She is not in close contact with her other family members who live in other cities and are mostly unaware of her day-to-day. Her friends aren't directly involved in the situation either.

    - She manages a multi-million investment portfolio with her investment advisor. Her home is worth ~5 million, and the collectibles are worth hundreds of thousands, many are international pieces, many are from her lifelong career in Hollywood.

    - During the one chance that my parents had to speak to her she explained that she does not want to live there permanently. She has more than enough money to afford in-home, 24-hr care (which isn't even necessary at this point). It seems like Bob is offloading her to the cheapest option.

    - After the hospital contacted Bob, he admit her to a seniors home and began to sell her possessions and real estate without her consent.

    - My parents visited Anne at the seniors home. She told us that Bob told her that: 1. She was living there temporarily, 2. Bob did not tell Anne anything about the sale of property. She was shocked when my parents told her.

    - My parents tried reaching out again, but were pretty certain that someone at the seniors home was listening-in as they cut the call immediately when she asked about what was going on with this whole situation. Afterwards, Bob told the seniors home to block my parents' numbers. We haven't been able to get in touch ever since.

    - When my dad spoke to Bob, Bob bragged about the sales. Bob also told my dad not to tell Anne that her home is being sold.

    Is Bob committing a crime? What recourse do we have, technically as outsiders to the situation, to prevent Bob from being negligent and abusing his power?

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

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 12:12 PM PST

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 10:22 AM PST

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

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

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

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    [CA] I Received a gift for Christmas, didn't want it, so I put it up for sale, and now the person who owns the patent is threatening to sue me?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 04:38 PM PST

    So story is in the title, but I put the object in question up for sale, and now I have the person who created the object telling me that I copied her, and don't sell her item, its not mine, and if I don't take it down, she will take legal action.

    I'm pretty sure if it was bought with money, its legally mine.. right?

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

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:16 AM PST

    Landlord wants 30 people a day in my home

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:12 PM PST

    I've never posted before but I have a question, I'm in Ontario Canada and we're in lock down currently, (couldn't have my mother over for Christmas a week ago without facing fines) my landlord is selling my house and has decided that his realtor (also his cousin) will be doing all communication and he won't speak to me.

    A little backstory, we're a family of 5 with 3 young kids, one is medically fragile so we've homeschooled since March, opting to stay home even for the few months school was open.

    They've decided that from January 4-January 10 they want us to allow showings for up to 30 bookings a day. I'm not even sure how they can accommodate that many unless they do multiple groups at a time.

    We allowed them in on the 28th of December to take pictures and assumed they'd film a virtual tour in an effort to minimize viewings, but they did not. They're of the belief that as many showings in person as possible will drive competition.

    When I got a little defensive he (realtor) said he was well within his rights but he'd offer to put us in a hotel for 3 of the 7 days, how is that useful? Nothing is open, we'd have to just drive around with the children all day everyday and they'd miss learning (they start back January 4th after the holidays, as they've always been remote)

    I'm not sure what to do but he's very confident that he can enter. Sorry if this is jumbled, I have conversation screenshots and I can clarify if I've left anything out.

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    I think my employee faked her Covid Test

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 09:36 PM PST

    Happy New Year.

    So I'm in a conundrum. Being an attorney myself, I spent too much time trying to figure that out that now I'm just going in circles.

    Here are the facts.

    My family runs a small business. We are categorized as a Critical Infrastructure Worker business (essential worker business).

    Today, an employee went to a Walgreens to obtain a COVID-19 Test after she left her shift. According to the floor manager, the employee wasn't exhibiting any symptoms.

    She forwarded the result to us, and frankly it looks like something I could make up on word.

    There is no seal of certification, the name of the person who performed the test isn't even there, for some reason the times are in PST when we live in EST, and the doctor she saw was in a city 2 hours away, but she claims it was a video call.

    There is no signature, no store number for the Walgreens, no address.

    I would like to know if I can request a certified copy of the results from the employee or have her doctor or Walgreens email us? We need to know because we want to protect our other workers and customers. We have already started the CDC recommended process.

    I want to verify the note...but I don't know if I can

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

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 10:15 AM PST

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

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

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

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

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

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

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    The horrible neighor

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 03:21 PM PST

    Good afternoon everyone,

    I'm searching for some advice on what we can do in the situation below. Hopefully this is the correct location for this question, if not; my apologies.

    My mother in law moved into a town house about a year or so ago. For the past few months, she has had to call the cops on a down stairs neighbor who blasts the music soo loud that her floors will literally shake all day.

    When I mean all day, I really mean all day. This person goes to work at 8am or so and leaves 2 radios on blasts when he is not even home. I was at her house for thanksgiving and you could literally feel the floor moving. This occurs regardless if he is home or not.

    The cops have been to this guys house over 50+ plus. They can hear the music/TV blasting from the outside and know exactly which house is causing the issues. There have been times where he answers, turns it down and within five min after the officers leave, he blasts the music all over again; to the point where the cops have to return back within minutes. This guy has shut the door the officers faces, yells back at them and sometimes wont even bother answering the door.

    In retaliation, this guys has randomly called the cops numerous times on my mother. Multiple times at 2 - 4am saying the lady upstairs is throwing things on the floor on purpose so I can't sleep. Other times saying 'He has heard gun shots' and believes there are domestic dispute upstairs. She has been woken up almost every other night with the cops at her door. Some cops even have her number and they call her after they receive the complaint, just to see if everything is ok.

    Whenever she calls the cops to put in a complaint, they literally know her as "the sweet old lady that lives in...blah"

    My mother has asked for the cops advice and there seems to be nothing they can do. We were told that he is a PE teacher for an elementary school and he is in the union. The cops have told her that he has multiple complaints against him, even at the school itself. It seems that because he is part of the union, the school may not want to fire him and the cops don't really get involved for some reason.

    He has received multiple 'verbal' warnings from offers, but nothing past that. Not a citation, not a ticket, nothing...

    We believe this guy may be on drugs or something and even the officers believe there could be mental or drug issues as well.

    We have spoken to the association and they wont bother doing anything. They say it's a civil matter and do not want to be involved. The members of the association are a bunch of older woman, whom in reality seem to be scared of him and don't want to bother with him.

    So were looking for advice now. What exactly can we do? It's not fair that everyone needs to follow the rules, but this guy can be a nuisance to her.

    Is there legal action that we can take against the association? Anything?

    Apologies if this is not written well, we are all a bit flustered as she has had to call the cops again and nothing can be done, she is coming over now and almost in tears.

    Edit: My mother owns the property.

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    Traffic Ticket Being Ignored By The Court

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 06:29 PM PST

    In October of this year, I was stopped in a town quite far away for speeding. I was given a ticket and about 2 weeks later I called the courthouse to ask for a deferral on the ticket. I was told to send an email to the judge asking for the deferral and simply to await a response. I sent the email that same day and never received anything back. I've since called multiple times asking for an update but they continue to tell me just to wait. My November court date has long passed and I'm worried that I will randomly have a warrant out for my arrest due to not appearing in court. The court clerk has repeatedly told me not to worry as they have my phone calls in their system but I'm not sure if I'm entirely in the clear especially as the time since my last call gets longer. Also, if the time of this delay is long enough, is it legal for me to change my request from a deferral to defensive driving since I will be eligible to take the course again in February?

    Edit: This occurred in mideastern Texas

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

    Posted: 30 Dec 2020 10:11 PM PST

    This is an update to my post here

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

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    Can I be fired for taking FMLA?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 01:58 PM PST

    I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. On November 13th I had a mental breakdown at work. Prior to this, I had gone through a bad break up, a car accident, two failed attempts at promotions, a surgery and lockdown. It all become really overwhelming in a toxic world environment where burnout is very real coupled with my uncontrolled Bipolar disorder Type l. Following the advice of my therapist, management team and HR department; I applied to take a FMLA to seek help. My FMLA got approved almost instantly and I was encouraged to start my leave as soon as possible. Within a couple days of taking my leave, I received an email with a packet of information that needed to be filled out by a doctor within 15 days of the day I received the packet. I frantically began trying to find a psychiatrist to get help with my disorder but more importantly to get someone to fill out this paperwork. I called HR to ask what would happen If i failed to find a doctor to fill this out and the representative told me I would be terminated for my absences. Every psychiatrist (6 in total) I tried turned me down for my FMLA since they didn't establish treatment or told me to leave work. I had one office manager suggest to consider harming myself so i could be admitted to a behavioral hospital to finish my paperwork. My own PCP turned me down because he didn't feel comfortable dealing with mental health and gave me a referral to a psychiatrist. I finally found one psychiatrist who agreed that taking time off was the best possible solution and stated she would help me fill out this paperwork. Now fast forward to a few days before my leave is done and I get a message from my leave agent asking me why no form has been submitted. I called my psychiatrist's office since I have no direct contact with her outside of appointment. They informed me that she is not going to fill out anything. The only paperwork she was willing to fill out was my disability claim, which I had to pay for her to do, and in the paperwork she constantly stated that she didn't know anything about me which prompted my claim to be denied. I am now looking at getting terminated without my paperwork filled out. I am in a worse mental state than I was when I started this leave and now I'll be without work or income to seek help. I feel like my FMLA should have never been approved prior to giving me the packet to fill out. I took this leave on the advice of my therapist, HR department and management team and now I'm being punished for it.

    I asked my leave agent if my therapist could fill out the paperwork instead but they declined since he's not a doctor.

    All of this feels unfair and I feel hopeless. What're my options when it comes to my job? Should I give up or am I protected in some way shape or form?

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    Roomate & her cats

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 05:03 PM PST

    Hello! I was just wondering if I could legally do anything about my situation, or advice on how you would handle it, please.

    So my roommate and I share a lease, and she has 2 cats she has paid for. She is never home, so the cats never get taken care of. As in, it will be days without food and water for them, and weeks (not kidding, up to four weeks) where she does not change their litter boxes. We have a vERY small apartment, and they each have a litter box. she does not scoop out anything, but instead waits until they're full, to take them out. Cats are very clean animals, and they will not use the boxes when full, so of course they find other places. And then when it gets on their fur, they spread it everywhere. I had to move my furniture into my room, to not be ruined. And had to take everything off the counters if I didn't want poop on them.

    Also, when she DOES take their litter trash out, she leave the trash bags on the porch. Currently there's 3 and they've been there for over a month, despite taking the trash out multiple times.

    The smell is so horrid that I cannot go into my living room or kitchen. I can smell it from my room, so I have to block the threshold and burn candles to make it liveable. The smell hurts my throat.

    The other day when I was walking up to our building, I could smell it from outside, and we live on a second story. I am afraid we will get a ticket or be evicted and it'll hurt my credit score.

    I told her no to the cats, but she went against me and has paid for their rent, so they have a right to be there. I have bought a scooper for her which she said she will never use, and I buy litter bags and scented pellets for them. I have bought them food that she didn't not appreciate and she has made it clear not to touch them or their stuff, including the boxes (which I have BEGGED her to clean.)

    is there anything I can do to get the cats out, or her out? I cannot break my part of my lease, which isn't out til July. I just want to live in my house again. it's hell. Thank you for reading, I don't know what else to do!

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    Unemployment mishaps. Clerical error of an employee landed his benefits in my name. Company is in the clear but I have to pay it all back?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 07:45 PM PST

    TLDR at the bottom.

    I am a 21-year-old college student. Before corona, I had been working on campus in the campus store but we all lost our jobs after campus shut down in early April. I was out of any income at all. The stimulus checks came out and my mom and I realized that I wouldn't be getting one nor would she get anything on my behalf since dependent adults don't get anything at all. We thought of unemployment instead. I honestly barely understood the process and my mom helped me get it all together and signed me up. We put in the correct employee information but something was a little wrong. I was approved but the employer listed was a different name than the one that I worked for. We spent a few days on the phone trying to get into the offices which were super backed up due to the ensuing chaos of corona. When we got ahold of someone they told us not to worry about it because some employers may have different names because of holding companies. She also stated that no one other than my employer should have my SSN and that the company let it go through so there shouldn't be an issue. We wrote her name and the date and left it at that. The money started rolling in and I started using it to help my struggling family with bills and pay my own. It carried me through the summer till about August. The problem comes when I received an email about a fraud hearing. The company has reported I don't work for them. I was extremely confused and freaking out cause the first woman on the phone said I would be fine. My mom and I attended the phone hearing. It turns out that one of the employees of the company and I have a 1 digit difference between our SSNs and when filling out paperwork he wrote his SSN wrong and so his benefits had gotten tacked on to my identity. We talked about our side and how we called when we saw a different name but were told that it shouldn't be a problem. The hearing ended with it being determined that the company didn't need to pay that money due to a clerical error and that I committed no type of fraud. The woman doing the hearing said she would be sure my information was corrected. I thought this would be the end of it.

    Nope.

    Another email was received with the Unemployment office asking me to pay back all the money they had given me... I am in no state to do this and this was never my fault, to begin with. I would have never even known that something was going on involving my identity until I requested benefits for myself. Will I have to tack on thousands in debt on top of my student loans? Is there anything I can do to combat this?

    Thanks in advance. Anything would be helpful.

    TLDR: I called unemployment to be sure there wasn't a problem with my employer's name being different. I was assured there wasn't a problem but in actuality, someone got their SSN wrong at the company listed as my workplace and their unemployment benefits were associated with my SSN. The company is in the clear but Unemployment wants me to give the money back. Will I have to?

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    Partners ex is threatening to press charges if ex's items aren't returned after years

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 07:04 PM PST

    Hi we live in massachusetts. My partner Z and his (now ex) partner we'll call Y dated X about 3 years ago, it ended messy and with a restraining order (x can't go near or contact y or z) was put in place against X which has expired and couldn't be renewed due to Y becoming physically abusive to z and z not being comfortable going with y to get it renewed, but that's a story for another day. So x contacted z today demanding his things back from when they where dating (the stuff has been tossed) or else x is threatening to press charges against z, does x have a legal leg to stand on, it's been a few YEARS.

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    My roommate refuses to pay her share of utilities bill,what are my options as I just moved out the house?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:52 PM PST

    After a previous roommate moved out,I was left putting the utilities bill on my name.We (Me and her) agreed this would be best as she couldn't put anything on her name due to being a student on financial aid.

    Things were going smoothly until I moved out.I decided to keep things on, because she still lived in apartment.Anyways I was going to turn off every by the 1st and expected her to pay me her half as well. I moved out by the 29th and she agreed to by the 31st.

    The bill finally was issued to me on the 30th and I asked her to give me her half of the bill after moving out.She agreed to over the phone. Nothing happened .I was forced to pay the whole thing not to be charged with a late fee.I told her this and she didn't respond to that either.

    She ends up texting me the morning telling me about something totally non related bullshit about me moving out and taking somehting of hers.

    I ask her for the payment and she decides to ignore me again. I am fed up with her as of now and all respect for her is lost.Can I sue her in this situation for the money that she owes me?

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    Literary Law Question

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:44 PM PST

    I am a U.S. author and I am getting interest from a U.K. publisher. I will be looking for legal advice to help review the contract. Is there some sort of international experience or specialty I should look for? Or will any reputable U.S. literary attorney be able to help me?

    Edit: I do not have an agent at present and am not sure I will need one if I have a good attorney.

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    Roommate (not on the lease) physically assaulted me and threatened to murder me and everyone else living in the house on Christmas Eve. What are my options for eviction?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:42 PM PST

    So I'll try and keep this short. We've known one of our roommates (28m) has some pretty serious mental health issues, (CPTDS, DID and possible schizophrenia) however it has never been much of an issue until Christmas eve.

    Everything started off well. However I (27f) noticed he was drinking more than usual. Around 10pm he followed me up to my room to have a smoke out on my porch. While in my room chatting he started threating my life. Towering over me and saying he would "Fucking kill me" if he ever felt his wife was in danger or something (quite incoherent) I told him to shut up, not to threaten me in my own room and too leave.

    His wife and him then got into a huge argument. He started screaming and yelling, threating to murder everyone in the house. His wife retreated downstairs and left the three of us to deal with him for the next 6 hours.

    During those 6 hours he proceeded to threaten all of us multiple times. Saying he was going to murder us, and how he got off on hurting people. He then went on to brag about all the small animals he tortured and killed when he was younger (I have a kitty and am now terrified of him being in the house with him). At one point i had my hand on his shoulder trying to calm him dawn, saying everything was ok. He seemed fine for a minute but then out of no where yelled, and bit down on my upper arm so hard it started bleeding and was in serious pain for about 24 hours. (The teeth marks and bruising are still visible 7 days later, and it just started scabbing over)

    I no longer feel safe in my own home. None of us do. I am the sole lease holder of the house. My landlord only likes dealing with one person, and allows me to fill up the other rooms as I see fit. So they haven't signed anything, but have been living there for about a year. I live in BC Canada, and not only are we in the middle of winter, but also in the middle of a pandemic lockdown. They are quite adamant about staying in their room, and are using these legal reason as to why they can't be kicked out right now. However I feel like there must be some kind of exception when they have physically assaulted someone who they live with? Any help would be appreciated. Until then ill be sleeping with my newly acquired hunting knife and pepper spray next to my pillow, door locked.

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    Safe Haven Laws

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 06:17 PM PST

    I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, but I figured it would be a good place to start. On December 26th my partner and I went to the emergency room. Long story short she was pregnant, full term, and 7 centimeters dilated in the middle of labor and we had no idea about it until the doctor walked into the room and told us 6 hours before our daughter was born. Needless to say it was an emotionally and psychologically not to mention physically exhausting experience. She had been in pain for 5 days from labor we didn't know she was experiencing. Due to this fact neither of us had slept more than an hour a day for 5 days straight and things barely improved at all in the two days that followed as the beeping electronics sounded off every couple of hours and any new baby that was born woke us both which in a maternity ward is a pretty constant experience. All of this is to say that we were not in the clearest state of mind when we had to start making big decisions. Approximately 48 hours after our daughter was born my partner signed a foundling certificate to have her adopted out under safe haven laws. That being said, after she signed the paper and we were discharged from the hospital early in the second morning we went home and finally got a moment together where she wasn't foggy from the drugs the doctors had given for labor and we'd both been able to get more than an hour of sleep. We immediately regretted the decision, but decided to wait a day to see if we were being significantly influenced by our hormones or if we still regretted the decision the next day after I'd been to work and we'd gotten a night worth of rest. On the 29th we contacted the safe haven hotline. They directed us to contact our social worker. We hadn't met our social worker while we were in the hospital though, so we contacted the division of child and family services on the 30th since their hours were closed for the day on the 29th and they told us to contact our doctor and see if he could get us the name of our social worker. Earlier today, the 31st we had an appointment with the doctor, got the social worker's name, contacted DCFS again to give them the name and get a number to contact the social worker. I called them and they explained that they'd need a paternity test to verify I'm the father and they wouldn't be able to get back to me until Monday the 4th to discuss having me assume full custody of my daughter since my partner was the only one who signed the paperwork and therefore I should still have custody of her.

    With this in mind I would appreciate any advice anyone here could give me for improving my chances of gaining full custody of my daughter and any potential advice on the next steps in this process. If anyone responds I'd greatly appreciate it. I live in Utah if that helps.

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    What is a “deferred” eviction notice?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 06:06 PM PST

    Hi! To sum up it all up to maybe add context to the question.. I live in a 4x4.5 off campus student living apartment. 2 of my room mates are great, the other one is not. We have realized she has moved a man into her bed space and they are smoking in the apartment (violation), he's not allowed to live here because he does not have a lease (violation) and they're messy and loud. We asked her to move him out and quick smoking, she refuses. We report to management, the guy finds out and starts screaming and cussing at the ladies (the 3 who "snitched") we leave for the night because it becomes unsafe. We tell her she needs to get him out of we're calling cops (the only thing management told us to do), she doesn't get him out and the cops are called. Cops say we need an eviction for the guy (I'm confused, he doesn't have a lease and isn't legally here is he? From my understanding, she snuck him in to live with her at the beginning of December and when we did see him we thought he was just visiting until we realized we'd be left alone w him). We yell at management to file eviction, they give the girl 24 hrs to get the man out, if not, she is double charged for the month of Jan. And they both receive evictions. They decide to stay after the 24 hrs and say they're not leaving. Office says they need TWO days to file the evictions, wish it was faster. Anywho, in the email sent to my room mates and I it states "if the illegal occupant is found on site that will lead to a deferred eviction notice being placed on the roommate that is responsible for the occupant. To start the process of eviction process."

    I want to add that the living situation has become very toxic and scary. Constant yelling from the guy, it's gotten out of hand, and they're still smoking in the apartment. They think they have broken no rules and have begun accusing us of being racist. I'm temporarily living with my boyfriend til this is solved, and my two other room mates had to found temporary housing as well.

    Basically........ SHE CAN AND WILL BE EVICTED RIGHT? I've read our lease dozens of times and she's violating so much. What is a deferred eviction, how long will this take? Is there any way FOR HER to get out of this and NOT be evicted? This is all in TEXAS. Thank you guys.

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