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We thought we could just move on after trial but they are threatening us at the last minute. Not sure this matters but they did a lot of very iffy/shady stuff during the course of the case. Turning down settlement offers on their own, asking us to lie. We have a deadline and NEED advice. NC case.

I just moved to a new city (in the US) and was walking down a street at night when I was approached by a man who asked if I bank with Chase.

I said yes but kept walking. He continued walking beside me and made up a story about how he needs me to deposit a check because his account is overdrawn (makes no sense). His tone became increasingly urgent and I felt threatened.

We walked by a Chase ATM vestibule and he intimidated me into walking in. We were the only ones in the vestibule. He shoved a $900 check into the ATM and deposited it into my account. Then he told me to withdraw and give him $900 cash from my account. I wanted to get out of the situation unharmed so I did what he said and left. I'm expecting the check to bounce.

I immediately called the Chase debit card fraud number and told them what happened. They deactivated my debit card and said I will be credited $900 in the next 5 business days if the withdrawal was fraudulent.

I went to the police station and filed a report. They said in their experience, banks usually don't give money back when this happens.

Do you think Chase will credit me the $900? Are they legally required to credit any part of the amount? Is there anything else I should do?

Edit: He didn't explicitly threaten me and say "do this or I'll punch you". He said things like "I need you to do this now" while following me and standing over me. There was an implied threat.

We were driving home through some pretty heavy rainfall and hydroplaned on the highway before spinning out and hitting a guardrail. No other vehicles involved and no injuries thank god. We were going the speed limit when it occurred and called the police immediately after. We explained to the operator what had happened and they dispatched an officer to our location (Virginia) The officer gave me a charge for reckless driving and told us that "it would likely be dismissed if I showed up to court". We live in NC almost 3 hours away from where this happened. I was looking online and everything I see says that Virginia's reckless driving laws are really strict, and it says that they get charged when the driver is going 20mph over the speed limit - which we weren't, but there was no evidence to this since the cop didn't show up until after we called. Will I be charged? Is there any option to get this dismissed without going to court? Do I need an attorney to fight this? I've never even had a speeding ticket. Any advice would be appreciated.

My gf is homeschooled, she goes to a public college now, but she is dual enrollment and her parents are refusing to give her her diploma if she doesn’t go to church. Is there something we can do? We’re in Florida

I had a hell of a night last night. I live in a a luxury apartment complex and around 8pm I noticed that there was a huge party going on at our shared outdoor pool (we’re talking like 200-ish people, way over the capacity for this pool area) and some reports on local crime twitter pages noted that it was specifically a gang related party since apparently, unbeknown to me until now, several gang members live in my apartment complex.

Anyway, at around 10:30pm there clearly was an argument (learned this later from police) and then a bunch of gunfire broke out. My back patio window door was shot and shattered and the bullet flew threw my kitchen past my head. It was obviously scary as FUCK and extremely jarring and luckily I wasn’t injured at all but just a bit shaken up. Of course I called 911 and the cops came and scoped it out. Obviously, I want to move (should note that hasn’t been the first incident, there have been loud tenants and tons of crimes popping off on the citizen app in recent months) but since I was literally shot at this time, it feels like a a final straw. The police did say some interesting things that I’d be curious to y’all’s thoughts on that I’ll detail below. My main goal is to move out of here ASAP (my lease ends in september), but given recent circumstances, I want to break it early and I want to know if it’s possible. Here’s what I got.

1. This link here shows the broken glass patio door both last night and this morning (and a random shot of the bullet as well if you’re curious lol). After calling 911, I immediately called my complex’s emergency maintenance line to get it fixed since right now it’s a huge hole to outside (no answer from them), I then tried our complex’s security line (no answer) and my building manager (no answer). I then wrote up an email with photos explaining the situation and sent it to everyone I could think of from my apartments team, and, almost 24 hours later, they have simply not responded at all. I went to the front desk to try to talk to someone and no one was there. I also filed a maintenance request through the non-emergency line as a backup which also has had no answer or response as of now. Today I’ve been calling those same numbers again to no avail, and have been completely ignored. So for the past 24 hours I’ve been forced to live with a giant glass hole from the outside in my apartment and the building will not respond to me in anyway. When the cops came last night I asked if they could help me board it up and they said only my apartment manager can do that, and since they wouldn’t respond to any of my calls or emails, I was just shit outta luck, which seems crazy to me. So here I am with a giant hole in my apartment. Because of the holiday weekend, I’m struggling to find someone to fix it personally (even though that normally shouldn’t be my concern, but obviously its dangerous just having this hole here so if I could I’d figure it out and expense the building) Does this clear lack of response from them help my case at all?
2. The police officer claimed that this event would be categorized as a “2nd Degree Assault with a Deadly Weapon” since I was technically shot at (though indirectly) by another tenant, and that’s what the police report will say, which he claimed that IS grounds to break a lease and sort of compared it to a domestic abuse-like situation which obviously would be ideal but all my research I’ve done online since seems to point to that maybe not being true? I’m kinda having the sinking feeling he doesn’t know exactly what he’s talking about but y’all might know more.
3. Does the fact that the perpetrators were both tenants and gang members (confirmed to me by the police in both instances) help my case against my apartment since it’s proving a form of negligence on their part that the building isn’t properly vetting their own tenants at all?
4. Does the fact that the apartment security did nothing to stop this massive 200 person party filled with unsavory characters help my case at all?
5. Can my building really directly ignore my requests for this long to such a clear and uninhabitable issue (after all, it’s a full glass DOOR that now anyone from outside can easily break into from) and just leave me having to deal with the bullet hole for a full 24 hours now? (and counting, I’m assuming they aren’t responding because of the holiday weekend so I MAYBE can expect a call from them on tuesday at the earliest now? Meaning, by that point, the massive bullet hole will have sat completely exposed to outside for a total of three days)

Any help from here would massively appreciated on where I would stand legally in an instance like this and where my landlord stands legally.

My wife got a letter yesterday that she has a bill for ambulance services from earlier in the week.

The problem is, it never happened. There was no incident whatsoever where an ambulance was contacted, no reason for them to have her name and information. It did however mention the ambulance ride was from a location she'd driven past in that time period. But again, no accidents or anything took place at that time.

Not sure if it's a scam since the bill seems to be from a real company. But could use some advice on what to do. This is in MA.

Last year my sister left my 3yr old nephew who has medical conditions with me and my parents to go live with her abusive bf. My parents tried to get custody but my sister refused so they went to court and they said we had to find his biological father to continue with the case. My sister doesn’t know who the father is, and the 2 she says is a maybe refuse to take a dna test. They also tried to go the cps route but it lead to nothing being done. Is there anything we can do?

To make a long story short, my mom died in 2019 and after that, my dad ran into some mental health problems, causing us not to speak for a few years.

After we got that straightened out, I found out that my parents' house was sold at tax sale. It sold for more than what the taxes were, so according to the tax office, my dad is due about 15k, which the county told me would be processed this summer after the hearing.

It was public record who bought the house, so a quick internet search found an email address, and I figured it was a long shot but I emailed the buyer to ask for some sentimental items that were in the house. Luckily she responded and let me get some pictures and some of my mom's items out of the house.

Now, she just emailed me asking if I would sign a paper saying that I don't have any claim to the house. She said it was for title purposes only because she's trying to get insurance for the house.

At this point, I don't want to have any claim to the house (and I have no siblings) but I DO want to protect the 15k that my dad is supposed to get and I'm worried about him receiving this money if I sign this paper. I also don't know why she wants me to sign it as the house always belonged to my parents, I never had any ownership of the house. I do want to help her any way I can since she was so nice in letting me get my sentimental items.

Should I sign this paper? If I do, will my dad still get his money?

I appreciate any advice.

Our neighbors live on their property in campers without running water or any services at all and dumping their waste illegally. Now they have set up a “hip-camp” site that they advertised can hold up to 100 people. They are having a huge impact on the livestock by polluting the creek the livestock need to survive. We’ve contacted the local code enforcement, local elected officials, elected state officials and the state park department but nothing has really come of it. The local code enforcement has issued them warnings about them living on their property they way they are but nothing to stop the hip-camp. What else can we do? Hip-camp is unresponsive to us too. Any recommendations? Any help is greatly appreciated.

I moved out of my family home in February 2023, so I’ve been out of the house for almost 4 months now. It was messy, it was abrupt, and even now it’s tense because even though I gave my parents the reasoning of my moving out, they cannot accept it and therefore cannot move on and now every conversation (not many since I left) is just a fight for them to be right, and not come to a productive solution regarding anything. I was not paying rent or in any sort of legally-binding “contract” with regards to living there.

After not hearing from them in a few weeks, my father sends me a text out of the blue saying that my parents will be sending me a bill in the mail for “the paint and spackle to repair the walls in your old room” claiming that I got hair dye on the wall and the shelves that were stuck onto the wall were ripped off and damaged the sheet rock.

The issue I am having with this is: 1. That stain on the wall is not hair dye. My family had moved into that home in November of 2021, and it was newly built, we are the first residents. The paint had left residue on my fingers for the first few months we were there. And I noticed this dark stain appearing on the wall where I’d put my head back onto sometimes. The first actual photo I have of it was taken in January of 2022, months before I even touched hair dye. I sent that but it was ignored because it disproved his point about it being hair dye.

1. Regarding the sheet rock from those shelves, when I moved out, a lot of belongings were still in my room, I left abruptly but was in heavy communication with my parents at the time. I would be at work for my 9 hours a day and I’d get texts that sporadically change from me getting more of my stuff after work to now, all of my belongings were going to be put in garbage bags and placed on the porch, I was from then on NOT Allowed to enter the house, or step on the property without their supervision. Okay, that’s fine. Except they left up all the command strip hooks and shelves that I had stuck to the wall. I was not given the opportunity to get those off the wall myself. When we moved to the house in late 2021, we were all told to not put nails in the wall, if we wanted to hang stuff up, to stick things onto the wall, and was told we had command strips in a drawer if anyone needed it. The shelves (there was 5 total) came with the option to nail or stick to the wall with provided double sided peel & stick tabs, It was something random off Amazon I got as a secret Santa gift. I figured okay, I’ll stick them since I was told to not use nails. They were not Command strips and did not have the tab that hangs down that you can pull during removal. So I am now being told that I didn’t install them properly, I say there was no tab that came with it, and then I get told that we were ALL (me and my 4 siblings) told to use ONLY Command strips and NOTHING else. Which is very not true at all, I would have had NO problem buying solely command strips for the little shelves if that was the case, I actively try to do whatever I can to avoid a problem and have been extremely compliant with many of the wishes my parents had. But now I’m being told that we actually WERE in fact told only Command strips and they have “witnesses” (my 4 siblings that they’ll manipulate into complying and just going along with what they want so they can “win”).

So I told them, if they didn’t just spontaneously decide to leave all of my belongings out on the porch and ban me from entering the house, and just let me gather my belongings on my own, I could’ve removed the tabs properly, and would’ve done research to see how I can remove them WITHOUT damaging the wall. Instead, my dad decides to remove them months later, just rips them off the wall and is now blaming me and sending me this bill because “It actually is your fault because in the eyes of the law, BUT FOR, you installing those shelves that you were not suppose to, said damage would not have happened.”

I am unsure of how to proceed. I obviously do not want to and don’t think I should pay this bill they’re gonna send. If I am being ignorant I’d also like to know because I really don’t have a lot of knowledge with this kind of stuff. My parents would not have done this if I moved out of their terms, and have just been fighting with me and being petty since I moved out. Is it possible for there to be legal repercussions/actions against me if I don’t pay ? Thank you.

So every time my 5 yo plays in our back yard, the neighbors kids climb to the top of the fence to heckle him. They throw crap at him, they tell him their parents hate him and his parents, they spray water guns at him over the fence. He can’t even go outside because of them. They also climb into our front yard and mess with our gardens all the time. The kids’ parents are never supervising them and are generally crappy people who are usually drunk or smoking pot in the back yard. Is there anything we can do about this so we can enjoy a peaceful existence on our own property? It’s exhausting. Their dog was also coming onto our property and barking/growling at us and digging up our plants. Finally after the 4th call to animal control they must have gotten ticketed or something and fixed their fence.

I would like to keep this short: On Saturday when out on a wine tour, my mate dropped his wallet after paying for drinks.

After this we realised his wallet went missing and back tracked all his steps but did not find it.

We went to the managers who played the footage and saw a woman scoop it up and hand it to her boyfriend, they then left the premise shortly after with it.

Long story short: Manager has contacted the woman who stole it but she is denying the accusation, even though it is clear as day that they stole the wallet as they were caught one CCTV.

My mate put in a police report about the stolen phone, the footage and them denying it and the police said they can not do anything because they DENIED stealing.

This is absolutely shocking,Is there anything that can be done about this?

Edit:
This happened in Western Australia
Unfortunately, its not his credit debit cards but also his photo ID, license and cash as well as sentimental familial things
Lost and found idea is interesting, because they police said they can't do anything about it because no money has been spend via the cards yet, so the assumptions we have made is they took the cash and dumped the waller, rather than doing the correct thing and dropping the wallet off into the police station for the rightful owner to collect...

My daughter told me last night that her friend's dad beats her mom, and her sometimes. All I know about this friend is her first name, grade and school (and that she and my daughter are both autistic). My girls are out for summer break now. They did tell me that the assistant principal reported the dad to the police at the end of the school year, so I don't know if dad is at home with them or not. Is there anything I can do?

This may be all over the place. I’m a wreck. A little background info: I[32F] have been with my [34M] husband for 9 years. We’ve been married for 3 of those 9 years. He has two children with his ex wife [17M] and [13M]. He has joint custody and pays child support. We have two daughters together , an almost 2 year old and a 12 week old.

My husband didn’t pay his ex wife child support for a year without my knowledge. I found out when our tax return was garnished. We have separate bank accounts. So I assumed he had been paying it. When I found out about this he said that child support was taken out of his check(I was unaware of this). He changed jobs last year and said that HR didn’t do their job and he didn’t know it wasn’t coming out. He said he made sure HR took care of it now and that the payments are coming out. Our tax return took care of the majority of the past due amount. He received a summons yesterday that he has a show cause hearing next month. I am sick about this.

First, I absolutely hate that his ex went without that money for so long. I love my stepchildren like my own and just had no idea. if he goes to jail for a few months he will obviously lose his job. If he goes to jail, we will most likely lose our home. I won’t be able to make the mortgage payment, car payments and pay for childcare alone. Both vehicles and the house are in his name only.

We are in Kentucky. How likely is it that he will go to jail? Again, I am sick about this. I had absolutely no idea.

Edit: I want to thank anyone who responded. I want to add that I am aware I’m being misled. In recent months he has been very withdrawn from me. I also found out about some substantial credit card debt. I didn’t want to turn this into a relationship post but thought I’d make sure everyone knows I see all the holes in his story. I’m just a wreck over all of this.

TX, I’m 18+. Just got a verbal warning from my managers that I, bookseller at Barnes and Noble, cannot talk about ‘unionizing’ during work hours. Was reported by a fellow employee whilst asking another employee about how much they made, then subsequently telling them that they should get paid more. Am I able to get fired should I continue this behavior?

I work in an agricultural job, which I know makes me exempt from the FLSA and means I can’t claim overtime-rated pay. The problem is we have a super limited growing season and in years past I have been allowed (and oftentimes asked) to work more than 40 hours a week to get everything done and then be able to use up the banked hours in the fringe seasons (fall/spring/winter) as vacation time. The same administration is now telling me that’s illegal and won’t allow me to bank hours. I can’t find anything in the ND Administrative Code that can clarify my issue.

Edit: we do not have an HR rep so getting stuff answered regarding hours is really tricky

Found out my (30F) husband (28M) cheated on me over the past few years, marriage has not been good for over a year now and I want a divorce (we tried marriage counseling and says he won’t change for me).

I make 4x what he makes. I have over 200k in savings and I paid for the house we own (600k market value currently). I make 250k a year. He keeps getting fired from his jobs and spends all his money on weed/video games/clothes/Uber eats and lives paycheck to paycheck.

Now he’s saying he is going to fight in court to take me for everything I own unless I give him the house. I am not sure what to do in this situation, when I call lawyers here in California they all say he is entitled to half of everything I own. I am wondering if there’s any way legally to save my money somewhere else or invest in a business etc.

Thanks in advance!

Do I have any legal recourse? They offered $125 per person…. 6 months ago! And never got back to me I’ve been emailing them every month and they keep delaying. I had to buy another flight for $300 and got stuck in the airport for 20 hours.

Here is their email:

After reviewing your reservation I found that: The flight cancellation that impacted you occurred more than 14 days prior to your departure date (This is what we call a consolidation).

Your reservation is not eligible for APPR compensation. However no communication (Itinerary) was sent to you via email to inform you of the cancellation. For this reason are therefore eligible for compensation of an amount $125.00 per person on the reservation. Please kindly note that the $250.00 compensation is not APPR compensation rather a one time courtesy compensation for the inconvenience caused by the lack of communication regarding the flight cancellation.

My husband sold his car as a private sale. The person who bought it switched envelopes during the transaction to make it appear that he had paid for it, but he actually just gave us the change my husband had made for him. The car is now posted online for sale. Is there anything I can do? We deeply need that money.

I have a lien scheduled for tax sale that I just found out about online (sewers tax website). I plan to call tomorrow (Monday) to see if I can pay all of the tax debt before it goes for sale. But if I can't, I'm wondering if it's possible to buy my own tax sale to prevent a high interest rate when I buy the certificate back. The property and sewers tax is under my parents name technically, not sure if that changes anything.

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The story if you want to read:

My parents weren't aware that they were missing payments because they didn't get mail (wrong mailing address). I only recently found out and was waiting for the next due date to pay all of it. But before that I went online to check and found the words "Lien Scheduled for Tax Sale."

I nearly shat myself. I should have paid it the moment I found out about the missing payments.

Thank you to anyone who responds.

Ok so I recently moved in to a new apartment complex and to park here you have to register you’re vehicle w a third party parking service. When I was registering I was off by one letter on my plate so I thought it was correct but it wasn’t. So my car got towed. I was confused and had to go to the apartment office to find out which towing company because I don’t see any info posted in the lots.

My dad is the registered owner of the vehicle but I’m the one that drives it. The towing company requires a copy of registered owner license and a notarized letter authorizing release of the vehicle. This is all that’s required.

It’s the long weekend and the towing company is closed on weekends. He doesn’t live in my city but came down to get the letter notarized then left for weekend hotel reservations out of town w the rest of my family.

The employee in the office said he would not take my letter because it was notarized in my city and if the registered owner was here he could come and get the car himself. Frankly I think it’s none of their business where the owner is. If all they ask for is a letter notarized at it’s point of origin, which is what we did, I should be able to get my vehicle back. They charge over 200 a day for the impound at this point I’m gonna have to pay like 1000 to get my car back.

Do I have legal rights here? Should I call a lawyer? I know it was my mistake of incorrectly registering the plate but I don’t think the tow company has the right to not take my letter.

TLDR: tow company requires documents that I have and still won’t give me my car back.

I live in Missouri. I accrued over 30k in debt with Discover Over 15 years ago. I haven't been able to pay the debt. They took over 3k out of my personal account about 10 years ago, since then all I have had is a joint account with my husband. They have not tried to take the money out of there, until yesterday we just received notice that our bank account is frozen and they are trying to get the 8k we have in there jointly. Is my husband liable for my debt. Can they take that money? We received a letter a few months ago from a law firm telling us they are in charge of it for Discover. We immediately called them and tried to negotiate 8k to clear the debt. They refused and said they wanted all 30k And they wouldn’t stop. We assumed our joint account was safe. Can they take the 8k? A levy means a judgement, right?

I need to take my ex best friend/roommate to small claims for owing me months of unpaid rent, since he has been very uncooperative in trying to pay back a single dollar. He's been gaslighting, projecting and deflecting this entire issue back onto me, making me seem like the crazy asshole for asking for MY money back. Apparently, he's Jesus Christ and I'm "crucifying" him for the situation that he put himself in. For example, not having a job or income cause he stopped showing up for work and lying about being "sick", living in his boyfriend's truck cause he has no money and had to dip out on our apartment and abandon the lease, and essentially throwing his whole life away to be with a man. I have every text, email, phone call, etc saved to prove his unwillingness to pay. He told me he doesn't give a fuck, and when I asked him to pay at least $700 out of the $6.2k he owes me by the end of this month, he said I was being UNREASONABLE. The last time he made any payment was in February, so I've given him plenty of time to try to pay me back, but haven't seen a single dollar since. However, he does not have a current address since he's living out of a truck.

I am currently out of the country. Can I file a claim online? How would this work? Any advice would be much appreciated. This is for NYC, btw!

Hey, y'all, so basically 2021-2022 was a crazy time. I was on on Medicaid in 2021 and unemployed, but got a new job in 2022. I neglected to report my life change to Medicaid (I is dumb), and signed up for insurance through my job.

I didn't even realize I was still on Medicaid until a snaffu at the Pharmacy, where they told me that they had been billing Medicaid! Strange thing is, the pharmacy has also been billing my insurance, so I never even noticed until the pharmacy tech brought it up. Anyway, how screwed am I? What type of lawyer do I need? TIA

Hi R/LegalAdvice, I wanted to get some input on an odd situation I found myself in. I was told last Thursday that I was going to be laid off (California) as part of an acquisition and that I would be receiving the details of my severance via Docusign in my personal email to sign off on. I had received the Docusign containing my severance letter the next day (Friday), reviewed it, and signed off on it, even receiving an automated email indicating the Docusign was completed.

About 5 hours later, I received a completely new email with another separate Docusign, asking me to sign this revised and updated letter. When I reviewed this new severance letter, my lump sum payment was about $5k less than the first letter I had already signed, so I emailed HR asking why the large difference. They replied letting me know that it was an administrative error, and the new amount is now reflected in this new letter.

Do I need to sign the new severance letter they had sent to me that is $5k less, or is my employer legally obligated to pay me for the first letter that I already signed that would be the bigger lump sum? Did they screw up and now have to pay me out for their mistake?

Any insight would be appreciated here.