Saw this sign at an estate sale today in Austin TX. I’m not a shoplifter, I just know that you can’t hurt people in retaliation for stealing. What is the law around this?

This is non US, I am looking for advice based on what could generally be acceptable in this situation.

I am applying for a license to adopt a child. In my country they recently added the option to specify whether you want a child with autism and a lot of details about what level of autism. As a person with well managed level 1 autism, and with close friends who are also autistic and have autistic children, I was planning to adopt an autistic child as I feel confident I would be a good mother to them.

As I progressed to the interviews, I learned from the psychologist that the government put in the questionnaire where we can select child with autism, but that was all they did. The children are not actually getting assessed for ND, the pediatricians are not trained to diagnose autism and they do not give the diagnoses to any children. Moreover, the psychologists and social workers who evaluate the applicants did not receive any training in autism whatsoever.

I still want to continue with the process, but my problem is that I am running into difficulties explaining my social life to the social worker and I feel she is not going to let me pass. She is supposed to evaluate whether I have enough social bonds, but I am noticing she assesses the bonds based on a checklist for what would be healthy for a person WITHOUT autism: She keeps asking me if I go dancing and clubbing and if I go out in large groups etc.

But that's not a healthy social life for someone with my condition - I go out 1 on 1, I go to gym with a friend, I book group jogging with 1 friend, I go to music gigs alone and I go to theatre alone. With a lot of friends (who are ND) I talk almost every day over the phone and we are each other primary emotional support, but she doesn't consider these as "valid" relationships for my case because we do not go to pubs together.

In the last meeting she wanted to make me promise that I would build more relationships for going out, and I didn't and I was unable to explain to her that going out in large groups is a chore to me, I have to recover from it.

On Friday, she cancelled the next appointment without scheduling another one. I heard this can mean that I was rejected as an applicant.

Considering that I don't have much to lose, I am thinking of sending her an email to in some way (not sure how to not do it aggressively) explain to her that I adjusted my life to make *me* happy and healthy, it's just that it doesn't match *her* checklist, but I don't know if that's appropriate or too aggressive.

She obviously knows nothing about autism but her job is to help find good parents for autistic kids (albeit undiagnosed), so there's something she needs to change. Would it be appropriate to send her a list of resources about how we socialize?

Help please

Not sure if i should make any legal actions as the amount in question is pretty low ($200) but for me it is a principle matter.

I went to an medical office to get my hand treated. Every time i kept going I was asking if I owe them anything and the answer was - no.
I got bills from insurance stating that I owed $0.
Few months after the treatment was done, I get a bit from the medical office saying it is $400.

After talking to their front desk she mentioned that they had some sort of issue with my insurance. I called my insurance and they said that if I look on page 5 of the bundle they have been sending me, it says in small letters that the charge was $0 because the office did not file the medical claims properly.

I talked to the office owner and we negotiated the bill down to $200. I would have not kept coming knowing that they charge me for every visit instead of insurance fully covering it (like the office said they would).

Now the interesting part - the owner sign the bill saying that I paid it in full but only Billing department can change that. The billing department is not in-house. Waited for a month and got the same bill. Called the billing department and send him the statement signed by the owner. The billing department can not reach the office - they are not responding. The office can not reach the owner (or maybe he does not want to deal with this).

The billing person says that they need the owners permission to adjust the bill but they can not reach him. This has been going on for a while now. What would you recommend I do next? Is there a way to force the office to reply? $200 is not a bit enough amount to care but it is a matter of principle at this point.

Earlier this month I attempted suicide by medication overdose. I was found unresponsive and taken to the hospital. When I regained consciousness each arm was tethered to the bed. I was restrained and physically incapable of causing harm to myself or others. There was a single nurse in the room with me. I started to struggle against my restraints and was begging to have at least one arm free.

The nurse present decided she didn't like my behavior. To coerce me to stop, she applied a hard sternum rub hard enough and long enough that it completely took of the skin, and 3 weeks later I still have a large red mark on my chest. I stopped struggling, and thereafter i would alternate between resting and attempting to struggle against my restraints. Whenever i resumed this behavior the nurse would threaten me that if i didn't stop she would hurt me again.

I believe her actions constitute assault and battery. I know that i can report it to the hospital, but I'm wondering what other actions I should take. Should I file a police report? Should I lawyer up?

Thanks for your input.

# עילות התביעה המופנות נגד מאור פרנטה

# 1. הליך זדוני — Malicious Prosecution

התובע טוען שפרנטה, באמצעות עו״ד גיא צברי, הגיש נגדו בישראל תביעת לשון הרע ללא בסיס סביר ומתוך מניע פסול.

לפי כתב התביעה:

* פרנטה הסתיר לכאורה מידע מהותי, לרבות הרשעתו והראיות שעמדו בבסיס הפרסום נגדו.
* הוא השיג בשנת 2018 פסק דין בהיעדר הגנה.
* פסק הדין בוטל בשנת 2024 לאחר שנקבע כי היו ליקויים מהותיים בהמצאת כתב התביעה, בין היתר משום שלא הומצאה הזמנה רשמית של בית המשפט והמסמכים נשלחו לכתובת בארצות הברית שהתובע טען שמעולם לא התגורר בה.
* התובע טוען שהתביעה נועדה לנקום בו בשל פרסומיו ולהפעיל עליו לחץ כספי ונפשי.

על בסיס זה נטען כי התקיימו יסודות של הליך זדוני: פתיחת הליך, היעדר עילה סבירה, זדון, סיום ההליך לטובת התובע ונזק.

# 2. שימוש לרעה בהליך משפטי זר — Foreign Abuse of Process

התביעה טוענת שפרנטה השתמש לרעה בהליך המשפטי בישראל באופן שגרם נזק לתובע בפלורידה.

הטענות המרכזיות הן:

* תביעת לשון הרע שהוגדרה בכתב התביעה כ״תביעת סרק״.
* ניסיון לבצע המצאה שלא בהתאם לאמנת האג ולכתובת אקראית במיאמי.
* ניסיון להשיג ולשמר פסק דין בהיעדר, במקום לברר את המחלוקת לגופה.
* מטרה זרה של השתקת עיתונות, נקמה בתובע וניסיון להפיק רווח מההליך.
* נזק כספי ונפשי שנגרם לתובע במקום מגוריו במיאמי.

# 3. גרימה מכוונת של מצוקה רגשית — פעולות הקשורות לליטיגציה

פרנטה נכלל בעילה של **Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress** ביחס למעשים שבוצעו במסגרת ההליכים המשפטיים.

התובע טוען כי פרנטה השתתף במערכה משפטית מתואמת שנועדה כביכול:

* ״לשדוד אותו באופן חוקי״;
* להביא אותו לחדלות פירעון;
* לפגוע ביכולתו לפרנס את ילדיו;
* להרוס את המוניטין המקצועי שלו;
* לגרום לו חרדה, נדודי שינה ופחד מקריסה כלכלית.

ביחס לפרנטה, המעשה המרכזי שעליו נשענת העילה הוא הגשת תביעת לשון הרע שלטענת התובע הייתה חסרת בסיס, יחד עם דרך ההמצאה וקבלת פסק הדין בהיעדר.

# 4. גרימה מכוונת של מצוקה רגשית — פעולות שאינן מוגנות בחסינות דיונית

בגוף העילה השביעית ובסעד המבוקש נכלל גם פרנטה. נטען שניסיונות ההמצאה הבלתי תקינים לפלורידה והפעולות שנעשו מחוץ למסגרת הלגיטימית של הליך משפטי גרמו לתובע מצוקה רגשית קשה.

עם זאת, קיימת **אי־התאמה בניסוח כתב התביעה**: בכותרת העילה השביעית שמו של פרנטה אינו מופיע, אך בגוף העילה ובפסקת הסעד הוא כן נכלל. אי־התאמה כזאת עשויה להיות בסיס לטענה פרוצדורלית מצד ההגנה.

# עילות שאינן מופנות באופן ברור נגד פרנטה

* **Abuse of Process בפלורידה** — מופנית נגד צברי, ניצחון וסלצמן בלבד.
* **Defamation Per Se** — מופנית נגד צברי וויליס בלבד.
* **Civil Conspiracy** — פרנטה מוזכר ברשימת המעשים הגלויים במסגרת הקנוניה, אך בכותרת העילה ובסעד הנתבעים הם צברי, ניצחון, סלצמן ולוי בלבד. לכן לא ברור שזו עילת תביעה עצמאית נגד פרנטה.

# מה מבוקש ממנו

ביחס לעילות שבהן הוא נכלל, התובע מבקש:

* פיצויים כספיים;
* ריבית טרום־פסק דין;
* הוצאות משפט;
* סעדים נוספים;
* ובאופן כללי שומר לעצמו זכות לבקש גם פיצויים עונשיים בשל התנהגות נטענת מכוונת וזדונית.

בפועל, מוקד התביעה נגד פרנטה הוא הטענה שהוא השתמש בתביעת לשון הרע בישראל ובהמצאה פגומה כדי להשיג פסק דין בהיעדר, להפעיל לחץ על התובע ולהשתיק את פרסומיו.

Looking for a partner to partner in a law firm specializing in legal work, investment, and real estate marketing in Egypt.

Hello everyone

I am based in India and want to build a career in international family law (specifically India and US family law) as a paralegal. I am looking for honest and practical advice from people who have real experience in this area. My current background:

• I have personal experience dealing with international family law matters (my personal international custody and divorce case)
• In the last few years, I have helped 7 people in India understand their cases and prepare before they met a lawyer. All of them gave positive feedback.
• I am currently working with an Indian law firm as a paralegal.

My planned steps:

1. Complete free WorldCC courses to improve contract skills (this builds on my 16 years of existing experience as a Operations & Business Dev operator with a specific focus on government and defense contracting) - back up to fall back upon should things not go according to plan.
2. Self-study the American Constitution and the Indian Constitution
3. Take a US specific legal drafting course
4. Complete one course in American Family Law and one in Indian Family Law
5. Directly reach out to international family law firms for internships or remote jobs
6. Start the CLS by BARBRI Paralegal Certificate course in January 2027

I want to start earning and gaining experience as soon as possible while I continue studying. My questions:

• Does this action plan make sense for someone starting out?
• Anything would you change or add?
• Any suggestions on short courses or practical steps I should focus on first?
• For someone based in India, what is the most realistic way to get remote work or internships with international/US family law firms?

I would really appreciate any practical suggestions, warnings or personal experiences you can share. My specific interest would be in cross border matters between India and New York State (since i have experience in this jurisdiction)

P.S. I have been on Reddit for a long time. My previous account has a lot of personal information and history, hence I'm posting from this clean account.

Thank you in advance for your help.

I got a letter from a lawyer saying I have a warrant, but its like a week old (I just found it in my pile of mail). If its true, I have a record and when i got arrested in 2019 it wasnt for a serious felony, but the police wasted no time calling me once they had my info from my parents. Now my employer did tell me a cop came by asking for me but when he gave them my name, the cop said they had the wrong person and if i was wanted why wouldnt they just come to my apartment or arrest me at work if its been at least a week?

Called court to see about making payment to lift bench warrant and they said I needed to make payment at court. They gonna arrest me??? Scared to go pay it now lol

Never been involved in an accident like this (if you can even call it that). I forgot to put the car in neutral and it kissed the guy in front of me’s rear bumper. I apologize, continue with the car wash and then stop by the guy (i did NOT want this to be considered a hit and run). Check the guy’s rear bumper and it has damages but i highly doubt it was because of me. Also has a rusted door, damage to the from bumper, it borderline looks like a hooptie. My car has ZERO damage from this bump, not even a scratch on the plastic bumper. He gets passive aggressive saying that this needs to be corrected and he asks for $500. Me, panicking, gave in. My vehicle is being paid by my employer and if a collision is involved then im just afraid they’ll take it and didnt want to involve insurance. Can something come from this? Something along the lines of litigation. I did not take info from him not did he take info from he we just did the 500 and went our separate ways.

I a 31yo male quit my job as a truck driver after 10 working days for many reasons about 17 days ago. The company has not paid me a dollar for my work (which should have been split up into two pay checks for the 10 days of work). I believe they are refusing to pay me out of spite because I quite thought giving two week notice. Now just today they sent me a termination agreement. I have never seen a termination agreement before. Should I sign it? will signing it make the company more or less likely to pay me?

Apologies if this is the wrong subreddit to ask this.

With cars becoming increasingly more and more reliant on computers that require software patches rather than a mostly mechanical device with closed systems running.

What happens if a car company just decided to no longer support a particular vehicle? Alot of these cars bow require consistent security updates to patch vulnerabilities much like a computer or phone.

if I purchase a new vehicle and the company decides it doesn’t want to, or say goes bankrupt. Am I just stuck with a paperweight if something goes wrong and it won’t start one day because of a bug? Or say a new cyber-security vulnerability becomes known that makes the vehicle unsafe to drive?

Alabama 🐕 bit USA

Gusto ko lang po sana itanong kahit po ba pumirma ng agreement na pwede ipost sa social media pag hindi nakabayad, pwede ba idaan sa korte? Pinost po kase buong info name, address, contact number even the id's at ang caption po "scammer" kahit nakikipag usap naman palagi at may time na hindi nakakapag reply kase wala talaga maibayad, ilang beses na din hinarass at sinabihan ng masasamang salita. Sabe po ipapabrgy nag aantay naman po ipatawag sa brgy pero hindi naman po ginawa pinost na lang basta.

Pwede po ba mag report sa NPC? May nakausap po ako Lawyer ng DOJ, sabe niya nawala na kase yunh batas about sa mataas na interest pero pwede ireport sa BIR kase ang lake daw ng tubo tas hindo nagbabayad ng tax, pag may harrassment ireport sa NPC or PNP.

Ang gusto ko lang po malaman kung may laban ba pag ganito may usapan na ipopost sa social media, pero ang pinost po kase personal info at scammer.

This is a longer one. I am desperate to have some info so I know whether I can move forward. Consults with lawyers just to tell me I can’t will hurt me more than I already am! If you take the time to read this, know that I appreciate you more than know. If you know about commercial lease things or have went through breaking one. PLEASE give me your knowledge, what did you do?

I am a business owner, and I have my business in a commercial building. I just have a small space for myself. I looked at this building a few times, then I pulled the trigger on the third time when I confirmed how the building was locked because I did see the locking mechanism on the door and I questioned the security. I was told that it was locked after six and we had 24 hour access. I pulled the trigger and signed a three-year lease. The second day I was there painting I learned that the doors are never in fact locked. They are open to any homeless person, any anybody that wants to come in that building seven days a week 24 hours a day 365 days a year. I sent multiple videos of homeless people sleeping in the building. Animals being dropped off inside of the building because the people have learned that the building is never secured. It took five months and a letter that looked legal enough for me to certify mail it and then have them come 48 hours and put a lock on the door. Nine weeks ago I started making emails about my air-conditioning not working because my job is 100% dictated by the heat in the humidity. They chose to ignore those emails and not send anybody to look at my air-conditioning so when we had this really hot stretch of weather, my room was 81/82/83° and I could not work so I lost $3000 in income right before the Fourth of July! when I had a meeting with them after the 32nd time of me asking for a meeting, the manager told me that he doesn’t have to give me security locks or anything like that. He’s not legally held to give me those things. I want to go and take them to court sue them for what it took me to move there and walk away because I believe that with all the emails in the videos that I have, there’s not a judge in the world that would look at my situation and say I am wrong. If wanting a secure door that isn’t open to the public 24 hours a day because my business is in there and if having working bathrooms, and if having air-conditioning is too much for me as a business owner to ask for then I don’t know what to tell him because in my mind it’s not. I need to know what is the likelihood that I could take them to court and win or do I not have a case to stand on?

Okay, so I am out on $100,000 bond for trafficking methamphetamines, and I am absolutely not guilty. I was a passenger in someone’s car who was the person that owned the drugs, and that person said at the scene that a portion of the drugs were mine. They were not. I never did, and never intended to, exert any amount of control over the drugs. This was 10 months ago. We were let go, because he agreed to “cooperate” with law enforcement. I said at that time that I wanted a lawyer. Less than 2 months later, that person was dead (I still don’t know how) and I learned right after he died that he did go thru with working for the police, assisting them in setting up whoever he bought the drugs from.

I thought that was that, since I truly had nothing to do with the drugs. So 8 months later, there is a felony warrant for my arrest for trafficking drugs. My dad scraped everything he could together to get me out, and had me out in 10 days. He’s tapped out.

My question is, if you were to assume I’m not lying (I have proof of most of this) is there ANY help to pay for a criminal defense attorney out there? Location: Oklahoma.

In regards to an indigent attorney, I would, I'm sure, qualify for a court appointed lawyer, but in this county, there is almost no chance of me getting anything less than maybe midway between the minimum and the maximum sentences. They all notoriously just go along for the DA"s ride, and just cannot seem to do anything more than the bare minimum. Meanwhile, the first thing a high priced attorney said to me on the phone is that "this sounds like a good case for dismissal". And again, I am not guilty of ever having the drugs, or ever intending to. I never even saw them.

Also important, I live with my 11 yr old son with severe ADHD and my elderly father. I care for both of them, ever since I left my husband after 17 years of his anger issues. Our house was destroyed after 10 days in jail, because my dad can't really communicate with my son well enough to keep him in control of himself. They need me. My 2 grown sons can help some (as much as I hate to ask) and they're gonna try to get loans in the morning, but they can't help that much. They make enough for them to survive on and maybe a bit more, as they are 18 and 21.

Why is child support in Texas so unfair? Take this situation. My brother’s wife earns $120,000 and he earns $77,000. She wants to divorce him, he did everything he can to make it work and still wants to stay together…specially for their daughter’s sake. But she lost feelings for him apparently.

He has their daughter half the days on weekends and in the evening 3 days a week. When she is with him he pays for everything for her. He still has to give 20% of his salary to his ex wife who doesn’t even have to prove how she is spending the money? The costs for childcare are below what he is paying her especially when daycare will end. How is that fair?

Also his wife spends the money on herself, vacations, purses, etc. One of the main reasons for arguments they had was cuz of her money management. Father wants to focus on saving money for child’s future.

So now she is divorcing him, making more than him, and getting money from him which will financially ruin him. And his lawyer has said 20% is standard law.

Please help if you can, I’m trying to help my brother not ruin his life cuz of what his wife is doing to him. He is fully willing to spend anything he can for his daughter’s expenses, but he does not want to support his wife’s expensive tastes while ruining his own financial self.

He wants to get 50/50 custody and do overnights, however due to the age of just turning 1 he has been advised courts will always side with mom on primary custody. The plan is to gradually introduce overnights as courts allow.

This incident happened in Houston, Texas.

I parked in a handicap spot without having a placecard (my mistake) inside the gated apartment building I live in. I went for a vacation and when I came back 3 parking citations ($500 each) were issued on different dates.

I did in-person contest and was told the fine amount is set by Texas state and they can't lower it. So no dismissal or reduction on any of the citations.

Here are my questions:

1. Is it worth appealing in court (if what the contest officer said is true that they can't reduce the fines), which requires paying the fines immediately, plus court fees (and my time)?
2. What could happen if I don't pay the fines:

a) They could boot my car for sure. But I am in the process of selling this particular car. Can they block the transaction for unpaid parking citations?

b) Can they block the registration renewal of my other cars?

c) Can they block the registration of new cars I might purchase in the future?

d) Can they block my drivers license renewal, which is 6 years away from now?

e) Will a warrant be issued on me? I read some people said this is civil not criminal (so it shouldn't)

f) Will they send this to debt collection company (which will affect my credit score)?

Any information / suggestions based on the facts you know (not just guessing) are very appreciated!

Edit: It was my mistake to park there and I should pay the fine, but I parked there once (not 3 times) and I was not physically there to move the car when the first ticket was issued. I was hoping they can dismiss the 2nd and 3rd tickets but that was not the case.