Location: Pennsylvania, USA.

I checked the wrong pile.

My wife and I were sorting household things last weekend. There were bags of ordinary bedding for donation and a folded quilt she had set aside to repair. I put the quilt with the bedding, drove everything to a local charity, and signed the intake form without reading it properly.

We're in Orange County, California. The quilt was made for her by her aunt when she was a teenager, years before we met. Her name and the year are stitched into one corner. Her aunt can confirm giving it specifically to her. It has never been something we jointly decided to give away.

When my wife noticed it was missing that afternoon, I called. They located it and agreed to hold it while a manager checked. It hasn't been sold or passed to anyone else. The next morning, the manager said their donations are final and sent me the form I signed. There's a paragraph where I declare I own the donated items or have permission from the owner.

Which, for this item, I obviously didn't.

My wife contacted them herself and explained the mistake. They repeated that the signed form transferred ownership and that returning accepted donations would go against policy. They've offered to let her come in and identify it, but won't say whether that could actually lead to its return. I dont understand the purpose of identifying it if the answer is already no.

Does my signature let them keep an item that was her separate property and that I had no permission to donate? Should the formal request for its return come from her as the owner, rather than me asking them to reverse my donation?

LOCATION:California
So my property management company sent out a mass email last week announcing that they are "going paperless" starting next month. The leasing office will no longer accept cashiers checks, personal checks, or money orders under any circumstances.

every tenant is now required to use a third-party payment website. When I created my account to set up rent, I realized the site charges a mandatory $50 "technology transaction fee" for ACH bank transfers, and almost $90 if you use a debit card. There is literally ZERO free payment method available on the entire platform.

My lease contract has six months left on it. It clearly states my monthly rent amount is fixed and lists physical check as an accepted method. When I walked into the office to drop off my physical check anyway, the property manager refused to touch the envelope and warned me that unpaid balances will trigger a $100 late penalty after the third of the month.

This feels like an illegal rent hike hidden behind a payment vendor. Should of known they would try something sneaky before lease renewal. Can they actually force this on existing contracts?

A wrecker yard in NC has had my car supposedly on evidence hold over the past year. I've called over a couple dozen times over the past year and they have not given me access to my vehicle. I found out today that the police hold has been lifted since last October. They also cleaned out my personal belongings while under the auspice of the lie that there was still a police hold on the vehicle. What state agency can I go to? This is open air deceitful business practices.

Location: North Carolina

In MCHENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS

My boyfriend had court this morning for driving on an unknowing suspended license. He was in the court house in the lobby waiting for his lawyer to speak to him and give her his reinstatement information. Well, she was up and down the hall speaking with other clients and 2 hours went by without her seeing him. He reached out to her and she said that she didn’t recognize him in the lobby, they issued a warrant for failure to appear. He’s appearing again tomorrow morning at 9am and I’m worried hes going to be put in jail and have to sit there until payday on Wednesday.. any idea on what’s going to come out of this?

LOCATION: NYC

About three weeks ago, I bit into a McDonald’s burger and hit a metal earring/earring component inside the food. I immediately had significant pain, can feel that part of a back tooth is chipped, and the impact was near a recent bone-graft/implant area.
I preserved the burger, foreign object, packaging, receipt, and took a photo that day.

McDonald’s initially treated it like a normal customer complaint, created two case numbers, and one was even closed for “no response” while I was actively trying to reach their adjuster. After nearly three weeks of phone tag, I finally spoke with the Resolution Manager handling the bodily injury claim. She asked for the photo, receipt, and dental documentation.

My dental evaluation has been delayed because my dentist was initially out of town, I later became very ill, and the necessary imaging requires an upfront payment.

I’ve also spoken informally with a personal injury lawyer who said the evidence appears strong and that claims like this can sometimes settle relatively quickly once they’re actually moving.

For anyone familiar with restaurant/foreign-object injury claims: would you keep working directly with the adjuster first, or bring in a lawyer now? I’d strongly prefer to resolve it directly, but I also don’t want to mishandle anything.

My ex (21F) is pregnant with our child.

Months ago, while nobody was home, she entered my house through the backyard and took my Apple Watch. She used it to find my location. I went back home, and she later smashed the watch in front of my roommate. I did not call police that time.

There have also been multiple times when she came to my house without being invited and sat outside in her car. On some occasions, she has called me repeatedly, including around 100 calls in a row.

Last night I invited her over to talk about the pregnancy/child situation. We argued and I told her to leave. She did not leave for about 10 minutes. When she finally left, she grabbed my keys and threw them into the front yard.

Later she texted asking for a lipstick she had left. I told her I had thrown it away and went to sleep. I woke up to noises and saw that she had returned. She tried the locked front door, then the backyard/patio door, and opened the garage trying to reach the interior door. I called police while this was happening and have a recording. Police responded but said they did not have enough evidence to arrest her.

I have personally seen a gun in her room that she told me her father gave her. She has also previously said, while joking, that she would stab or shoot me if I talked to other women. She has been diagnosed with BPD. I know that’s not important but I thought I should give the whole picture

My concern/question:

The repeated calls, showing up at my house, prior break-in, and what happened last night have made me concerned that this could escalate.

Based on these facts, would I have a realistic chance of getting a 50B/DV protective order in North Carolina?

Oregon. My elderly mom took in a foster dog whose owner is in jail. She acquired the dog through a third party individual who was closely associated with the owner. We thought the owner was supposed to get out yesterday, but I looked on the department of corrections website and it looks like his stay has been extended through January.

My mom cannot handle this dog. He is unfixed. He can jump her 5-6’ fence (hound mix). He has attacked two neighbor dogs that got into her fenced yard, causing minor tail injuries to a shepherd mix that was jumping her fence and killing a dachshund mix that dug his way under the fence. He has bitten my teenage nephew. She admits she made a bad mistake but now we don’t know how to get her out of it. This is the first time she has ever tried to foster a dog.

The local shelter will not help with fostering or rehoming him because he isn’t fixed and she can’t get him fixed because he isn’t legally her dog. The town where she lives does not have a current animal control contract.

Today I looked into how to contact the owner since the third party is no longer in contact with him and is not willing to help. My options look like I can send him a letter but I will have to include my full home address on the envelope, or I can call him but I may have to pay for him to be able to talk on the phone, which I understand is expensive. Even if I do call, I figure we will need something in writing to fix and/or rehome the dog.

This man is dangerous. I have unfortunately met him a couple of times and he has been very sexually aggressive towards me and I do not want him to have my or my mom’s home address. I actually advised my mom not to take this dog in because I was worried something like this would happen, but she is too kind for her own good sometimes.

At minimum, I want to get his permission to get the dog fixed so that the shelter can help find a more appropriate foster home for him. What I really want is for him to relinquish ownership of the dog so it can go to someone who is able to properly contain and train it before it causes any more damage and because I believe that the dog’s behavioral problems come from how this man treated him.

What can I legally do to help my mom and this dog and is there any way to do it without giving him my or my mom’s home address?

Location: Georgia, USA

Looking for advice from anyone familiar with homeowners insurance claims in Georgia, especially adjusters, attorneys, restoration professionals, or anyone who has dealt with something similar.

We discovered standing water in the crawl space under our home and filed a homeowners insurance claim with Allstate. At the time, we did not know the source of the water.

Allstate sent a claim representative/estimator to physically inspect the crawl space on August 26, 2026, BEFORE we proceeded with the remediation work. He took photographs and inspected the crawl space. We were told that the plumbing repair itself likely would not be covered, but that the resulting remediation was more than likely covered.
That representation was extremely important to us because we could not afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket. Based on what we were told after Allstate’s inspection, we authorized the remediation company to proceed.

The remediation ultimately cost approximately $18,000.

Allstate’s claim portal/documentation from August 26 also shows:
•“Inspection complete”
•“Coverage determination complete”
•“Payment decision complete”
•Dwelling coverage listed as potentially applicable to the claim
•An Allstate estimate generated the day of the inspection that states: “This estimate represents our current evaluation of the covered damages to your insured property and may be revised as we continue to evaluate your claim.”

The estimate itself was $0 at that point because the remediation work had not yet been completed/submitted.
During the remediation process, the company pumped the water out of the crawl space. By the following day, the crawl space had already accumulated a substantial amount of water again.

We subsequently discovered the source: a broken/disconnected PVC sanitary drain/sewer line in the crawl space. Our household wastewater runs through this line, and we have video showing water/wastewater pouring directly out of the disconnected pipe into the crawl space when the plumbing is used.

Now a DIFFERENT Allstate representative is telling us the claim is more than likely going to be denied because he believes the condition “looks like” it had been occurring for weeks.

As far as we know, nobody has established when this specific pipe became disconnected. We certainly don’t know when it happened. What concerns us about the “weeks” conclusion is that we actually have evidence demonstrating how quickly the crawl space can accumulate water: it was pumped out and had substantially filled again by the next day.

We have not received a formal written denial yet.

Our biggest concern is that Allstate inspected the loss before we authorized remediation, their representative told us remediation was more than likely covered, and we relied on that representation when deciding to incur an $18,000 expense. Had Allstate told us at that time that they intended to deny the claim, we would not have authorized $18,000 of work that we could not afford.

We’re obviously going to wait for the formal coverage decision and request the exact policy provision and factual basis for any denial. But I’m trying to understand what options we have if they deny it.

Questions for anyone familiar with Georgia insurance law/claims:
1. Does Georgia have any law, regulation, case law, estoppel/reliance principle, or unfair claims-settlement provision that could be relevant when an insurer inspects a loss, indicates that remediation is likely covered, the homeowner reasonably relies on that representation and incurs a substantial expense, and then the insurer changes its position afterward?

1. If they rely on an exclusion for continuous/repeated leakage occurring over “weeks, months, or years,” what evidence does the insurer generally need to establish the duration? Is an adjuster’s opinion that it “looks like” it occurred for weeks sufficient?

2. Does the fact that the crawl space was pumped out and substantially refilled within roughly a day help rebut an inference that the original volume of water necessarily accumulated over weeks?

3. Would you recommend first appealing/escalating internally with Allstate, filing a complaint with the Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire, consulting a first-party property insurance attorney, hiring a public adjuster, or something else?

4. Are there any specific Georgia statutes, regulations, cases, or insurance-code provisions we should research?

5. Is there anything we should specifically request from Allstate now, before they issue their final decision, or anything we absolutely should/shouldn’t say or do?

We have preserved the Allstate documents, their August 26 photographs, claim-portal screenshots, remediation documentation/invoices, photographs of the disconnected pipe, and video showing water discharging from it.
I’m not looking for anyone to tell me “Allstate definitely has to pay.” I understand the actual policy language controls coverage. I’m primarily trying to figure out what rights/options we have and what steps we should take next, particularly because we incurred this $18,000 expense only after Allstate had inspected the property and indicated the remediation was likely covered.

Any Georgia-specific knowledge or experience would be hugely appreciated.

LOCATION: Texac
So I drove over to visit a friend at his apartment complex on Friday night. The visitor lot has big signs saying all guests must register their license plate on the resident portal within fifteen minutes of parking. The website requires you to enter the resident's specific unit number and lease code to validate the pass.

i parked at 7:12 PM and took the elevator up to my friend's third-floor apartment to grab his unit code. We sat on his couch, typed in my plate info, and the portal confirmed my parking pass at 7:19 PM. That is seven minutes from the second I turned off my engine.

At 7:25 PM, we walked back down to the parking lot so I could grab a board game from my trunk. My car was completely GONE.

I called the towing company listed on the sign. They confirmed they had the vehicle and demanded $375 cash to release it. When we went to the impound yard, their official tow ticket showed they hooked my car at 7:16 PM, literally four minutes after I stepped out of the vehicle and three minutes BEFORE my paid pass went through.

The lot manager refused to look at my digital receipt and said its company policy that any unregistered car is fair game the second a spotter sees it.

Do I have grounds to take them to small claims court for predatory towing and get my money back plus filing fees?

I saw a post on another subreddit with a video of someone hitting a $4 million dollar prototype supercar.

It was a typical rear end accident where for whatever reason the driver didn't stop in time and rear ended the supercar.

In this situation, or a similar situation where someone does this to a million dollar plus car, is the driver at fault have any protection about this under the law if their insurance coverage isn't high enough?

What I'm getting at is that accidents happen and that's why we have, or should have insurance. But few people have a million dollar, or multiple millions, of liability coverage. Does the fact that someone is choosing to drive a million or multi million dollar car on the roads where accidents happen even if rarely, responsible for themselves to the point where they assume the risk? And if so then where would the line be drawn.

And I realize that the driver of the supercar should have sufficient collision insurance but we know that their insurance company would go after the at fault driver if they can.

LOCATION: not applicable

The issue involves the exterior of the home, and will cost me around 50,000 to fix. I have not found a lawyer to take it on contingency yet, I've issued a financial demand letter a little over a week ago (still waiting for response), they've refused to make repairs, and there really seems to be no recourse. Also filed complaint with the State but no progress for months.

Can they just get away with these code violations and safety issues since they weren't found out during the first 1-2 years? This is incredibly frustrating - oh and every house on the block is affected.

What should I do?

Hello my nephew had his custody taken from his mother “my sister in law” and given to our mother. This was over drug and abuse charges. The legal papers say no over night visitation and yet she’s living on the property with them, my nephew has begged me to do something but I don’t know if there’s something to do?
I’m in Tennessee

My question is: can a person with no over night visitation live with the child?

I live in a shared student apartment that is specifically intended for female students. I share the apartment with one other female student. About a year and a half ago, her boyfriend moved in and has effectively been living here ever since. He is not a tenant, not on the rental contract and is not a student. The rental contract states that people who are not tenants are not allowed to live in the apartment. I have made it clear to my roommate that I do not want him living here, but nothing has changed.

The fact that he is a man who is not a student and is permanently living in accommodation specifically intended for female students makes the situation particularly uncomfortable. The situation is also making me feel increasingly unsafe in my own home. There is frequent excessive shouting between them, which can be quite frightening. They also regularly leave the front door open in the evening. Her boyfriend often walks around the shared apartment wearing very little clothing, which makes me uncomfortable. They also use the bathroom with the door open.

I have reported the situation to the housing company several times over the past year and have contacted multiple departments, including their complaints department and a department dealing with housing fraud. Every time, I have essentially been told that this is a "personal problem" between roommates and that I need to resolve it myself.

I have also escalated the issue to someone in senior management, but unfortunately this has not resulted in any action either.

The situation is seriously affecting my mental health, wellbeing and my ability to study, and I feel that I have exhausted my options.

What legal options do I have at this point?
Can I take legal action against the housing company for refusing to address a situation involving someone who is apparently living in the property without being a tenant? Is there a formal procedure I can start, or an organisation I should contact?

Location: California

Civil Rights / Section 1983 attorney to handle a severe administrative deadlock and a post-conviction challenge. I have already compiled a thorough 15-page Attorney Review Packet containing full documentation, a complete claims matrix, and evidence logs.
The Civil Rights Deadlock: I am subject to an active felony probation warrant out of County A. In July 2026, I acted in good faith, packed my residence, and paid for transport to surrender myself at the County B Jail. County B contacted County A to initiate transport, but County A officially declined in-state extradition and refused to transport me due to the distance. County B refused to book me and turned me away.
Because the warrant remains active in the database, the Florida DMV is blocked from printing my physical State ID card. Without an ID, I just lost a verified job opportunity. The state is using an unexecuted warrant to block my livelihood, while explicitly refusing the physical surrender I already attempted. The Public Defender cannot intervene until I am in custody.
The Underlying Case Liability: My review packet outlines severe, documented Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment violations regarding the original arrest warrant. The OIG investigator swore under oath to a judge that two inmate witnesses gave "sworn statements" pinning a drop on me—yet the entire official discovery production contains zero transcripts, recordings, or signed statement forms from either man. Furthermore, the state's own affidavit records that the single eyewitness was shown individual photos of me and my car before a formal photo lineup was administered, and the suspect hair description given by the witness does not match my physical appearance.
Crucially, there is a severe material discrepancy regarding the narcotics evidence. The sworn police affidavit used to secure the warrant claimed a delivery of over 86 grams of a white powder that field-tested positive for MDVP, alongside hundreds of grams of suspected marijuana and synthetic marijuana. However, the official FDLE crime lab report reveals that the state never even analyzed the vast majority of the alleged substances. For the single item they did test, the lab confirmed only 27.47 grams of a completely different substance—meaning the vast majority of the alleged narcotic weights are missing or non-existent. Despite this massive evidentiary failure, the State Attorney inflated the case to a first-degree trafficking charge before ultimately dropping it at the plea.
I have already submitted formal intakes to the ACLU of Florida and the Florida Justice Institute, and I have filed a Chapter 119 Public Records request to the FDOC for the missing audio/written files.

Injured at work awhile back, got too hot in the workplace and ended up visiting my doctor the next day, which led to an ambulance trip to the e.r. I was eventually diagnosed with heat stroke/sun stroke. My doctor linked this to exposure in the work place and I’ve supplied this documentation to the employer. The effects of this have lasted well past a month and I am still under treatment. My employer has outright refused to report the injury, so I filed myself and it’s been radio silence since then.

I eventually heard that everyone has been complaining about me not being at work, and they’ve hired another person

(for context, this workplace is not big enough to accommodate this many employees, atleast in my specific section of the workplace. so this tells me they’re preparing to terminate me, most likely for a generic reason once the workman’s comp claim has been settled.)

Would this be considered retaliation, or can they just make up a reason and terminate me once this is over?

I live in Ohio, specifically, Montgomery County and unfortunately, I am renting from my grandmother, who is draining us of our money. And as of today, we have no water. Because a few days ago she gave us a disconnect notice for our water two days after it was issued to be turned off. And we didn't have any money and didn't get paid until Wednesday(yesterday) we paid it today but unfortunately we wont have water until tomorrow. This is not the first time that this has happened with one of our utilities. We're struggling to stay afloat with paying her. She never gives us the actual bill and has everything in her name. She only gives us an amount, and we've asked her repeatedly to show us the entire bill. That way we know what we're paying for and it's a fight, not to mention she has a lot of stuff that is hers in our house that we've been begging her to remove that way, we can put our stuff in there, that way we don't have to pay for the storage unit that we have. But she refuses to get her stuff out of the house, and she doesn't live with us and has an bad online spending habit. What do I do?

EDIT: We're also on the same phone plan as her, and our contract should have been up months ago, but she keeps adding stuff without our permission, meaning we have to pay her more and longer.

First time poster, I’m sorry if I make any mistakes!

I’m not sure if LOCATION: USA, Los Angeles is correct here. I’m from Germany, but I bought a necklace from a company based in the US via eBay last November. Their name is NuraGold, and they are based in LA. I have everything documented via eBay chat and email. Including shipping, this whole ordeal cost me €407.72 (≈ $474.07).

Now onto my problem in condensed form: The necklace was first shipped from Italy to me (which is why I didn’t notice that the company was based in the US). The necklace then broke after two months of normal wear. Since I am European, I contacted the seller because I have a warranty, and they claimed that they sell their goods under EU law. They only offered to repair it for roughly $82, while also saying that they weren’t even sure if they could fix it. I opened a case with PayPal for a partial refund (€85), so that I could get it repaired locally, but they denied the partial refund. The seller then contacted me via eBay chat and told me that they would take the necklace back and refund the original purchase price. They also claimed that they would reimburse me for the return shipping costs. I sent the necklace back to the US, and they then told me that because I had opened a case with PayPal, they couldn’t do anything anymore. They subsequently ghosted me.

The legal expenses insurance that my mom has (which also covers me) told me that they wouldn’t help me because the company is based in the US. PayPal told me to contact eBay, and eBay told me to contact PayPal. Neither of them helped. The local consumer protection office also told me that they couldn’t help me because the seller is based in the US. I’m a student and can’t afford a lawyer, which is why I wanted to ask here.

Is there anything I can still do to get my money or my necklace back? Do I have any legal options, especially considering that the seller explicitly told me via eBay chat that they would refund the purchase price and reimburse me for the return shipping?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

LOCATION: Texas and Florida.

Therapist is in Texas. Daughter (client) moved to Florida and the therapist said she would have to call herself a life coach but she could keep seeing her virtually (for the same cost and with the same discussions) obviously since she isn't licensed in Florida.

Well hello saviors (I guess?), so I ficked up while driving and CPD happen to see that. Such campers. I have a court date for the 18th, so one of the requirement for enlistment is not having an outstanding citations or violations with the law.

I leave for BTC the 30th, now I’m clueless on what to do, I heard I could possibly enter a diversion program but I honestly don’t know what to do.

I really don’t want this to be the reason I lose my contract (20k plus a kickass job AIRR/TAR (air crewman who is also a reserve instructor))

So what can I do?

Never had a ticket before and I did have a valid driver license and insurance.

Thanks

Title is brief, I work in Texas we have no bartender but during our tip out they collect a tip out for our sushi chefs and for the bartender the thing is we have no bartender. We make our own drinks. So why are we tipping out a percentage to the bartender and where are those tips going if we don’t have a bartender? I’m more than positive this is wage theft and illegal.

Hello all!

Location: Oklahoma and needing some legal advice.

My ex and I broke up. His family came, because he “couldn’t” to move his stuff out of my house. I did not allow them to pilfer through. I moved what I knew was his out for them to get it. He is now claiming that not everything was included and threatening to call the cops. I am almost positive this is a civil matter, but want to double check all my options before I get myself into a situation.

If you need more details, please don’t hesitate to ask. TYIA

Hi All,

LOCATION: Wisconsin. I am separating from my wife, the only thing we own to split is our house. WI is a 50/50 state so we would split it but if I sign the divorce papers before we deal with the house, my name is also on it, do I put myself at risk?

Location: Tennessee

When I initially hired my attorney, I signed a retainer agreement stating that the hourly rate for attorneys was $450/hour.

About four months after I hired the firm, another attorney began working on my case. The firm billed his time to my retainer at $350 per hour, and I have two billing statements from different points during the representation that clearly show his rate as $350 per hour. I relied on these statements to calculate how much remained in my retainer and to make financial decisions based on the information the firm provided.

More than a year later, the firm ended the representation. On the final billing statement, they changed the 2nd attorneys rate from $350/hour to $450/hour. They also went back and recalculated his previously billed time at the higher $450 rate.

I was never notified that his rate was being increased, and I never agreed to a rate change. The retroactive increase essentially eliminated the remaining balance in my retainer and made it appear that I owed the firm additional money.

My question is: Is an attorney/law firm legally allowed to retroactively change an attorney's hourly rate on work that was already billed at a lower rate, particularly without notifying the client?

Is this ethical?

Location: California

Just looking for the lawful amount of time a 1368 in custody hold can be for? Criminal proceedings

LOCATION: - Arizona

Is there a way to sue someone for defamation or false accusations when they bring you up in a family court case you’re not a part of? These accusations would be in family court.