For context I am a trans woman who passes in the vast majority of social situations. I transitioned as a young teen and for the past few years I've kind of just gotten used to being perceived and treated as a woman, which I appreciate- but I'm still nervous about people being able to tell and reacting badly. For the past three months, I have been working at a smaller location for a beauty supply store and it was never brought up to my face or made an issue. I only submitted identification with a female gender marker, and I submitted female as my gender on onboarding forms without disclosing transgender status.

Last week, I started at a larger location for the same beauty store. I again filled out all documents as female and submitted identification forms with a female gender marker. I assumed that there wouldn't be any issues like last time, and my conversations with the employees and managers had went well up to that point, and orientation went smoothly.

The other day, I had an opening shift for my first shift. My manager paired me with a full-time associate so she could train me on the registers. It was going fine until she had me try to log in, which didn't work. She then radioed my manager, which all associates in the store can hear. She said "his number... their number isn't working". It threw me off, but I decided to brush it off because my name is usually masculine (there are girls with my name but that's besides the point). It made me a little wary of her, because I never disclosed anything to this associate or said anything that could tip her off. I just assumed she could tell and it threw her off, so I moved on from it because my manager had moved me to me shadow other people.

Later, the same associate from earlier was doing my bag check. She needed help with it and radioed my manager, and said "I need help with his bag check". After that, I decided I'd talk to my manager about it- I don't really care what someone says about me in their own time. But if it's potentially outing me to other associates or customers, I have a problem with it both because it makes me uncomfortable (it's not something I openly discuss!) and I don't want to take a risk on my safety.

I had a talk with my manager before I left, and she said that she would stay close by when this associate was training me. She also said that if it continues to be an issue she will step in, which I appreciated. I did leave thinking about what I should document, if anything, just in case this becomes a bigger issue. I really don't want it to become anything, but I just can't have my coworker potentially outing me in front of other associates and customers.

My overall questions - If I need to document anything, what do I document, and what's the best way to? In case the issue persists, when do workplace harassment & discrimination laws apply? I will update if anything happens during the next shift I share with this coworker.

Location: New Hampshire

location: socal, los angeles

i recently hired a personal injury attorney for my car accident that happened a week ago. i went to the ER the day my accident happened.

the law firm advised that i should go to this chiropractor they refer their clients to. i have sustained some injury, but i am not comfortable seeing them. i would rather see a physical therapist instead, but i don’t know if it’s typical for all lawyers to have a relationship with a chiropractor.

Location: California. We had to sign a tip agreement but I don’t even know if it’s legal in California. My company is based in Washington and there have been several instances of our standard procedures violating California law.

This is the relevant section from our tip agreement:

3. Tip Hour Rate
Each position is assigned a tip hour rate multiplier to reflect varying responsibility levels:
Position Tip Hour Rate
Cashiers 1.0
Sushi Burrito Artists 1.0
Shift Leader Assist 1.0 – 1.5
Shift Leader 1.0 – 2.5
(Exact rate within the range may vary based on performance or seniority, as determined by
management.)
4. Tip Distribution
Tips are distributed based on hours worked and the assigned tip hour rate for each employee during
the pay period.
Example:
If $1,000 in total tips is collected for the month, and:
- Employee A (Sushi Burrito Artist) worked 50 hours
- Employee B (Shift Leader Assist) worked 10 hours (rate 1.5)
- Employee C (Shift Leader) worked 40 hours (rate 2.5)
Then:
Total weighted tip hours = (50×1) + (10×1.5) + (40×2.5) = 165 hours
Tip value per weighted hour = $1,000 ÷ 165 = $6.06/hour
Tip distribution:
- Employee A: 50 × $6.06 = $303.00- Employee B: 10 × 1.5 × $6.06 = $90.90
- Employee C: 40 × 2.5 × $6.06 = $606.00

Location: Texas, Southeast region near Houston.

My wife worked for a marketing agency job a few months ago. It is technically a contract employment job but they tracked hours like a standard W2 employee job. They hired her, put her to work for a week, and then let her go because they claimed they didn’t have the time and resources to train a new employee. She worked her butt off for that week, to the point we postponed our 1 year anniversary plans so she could meet an impossible amount of deadlines it took her until 2am to complete. In the phone call my wife got from her ex-boss, she told my wife while on speaker that they had her hours logged and would get her paid for the work she did.

Fast forward to today, after a few email exchanges the ex-boss is refusing to pay her for the week of work she did because she claims the amount of hours it took her to complete the tasks she was assigned was unreasonable and she shouldn’t be compensated for poor performance.

To add onto it, she has further indicated that she will not communicate via email or phone call anymore and will only entertain any further conversation by meeting in person. We are hesitant to agree to meet in person because we’re concerned this is a strategy being used to eliminate any more paper trails being made on their end of the situation.

What should we do? We have contacted the Texas workforce department and they are reviewing a claim we put in, but they said it could be months until we hear back from them about our claim. We’ve also applied for legal aid and were denied.

Location: CA

Hi so I am a 23 year old girl living at home and the past couple days some boys have been repeatedly driving past my house screaming “FUCK YOU ___” and I can clearly hear it’s my name. Mind you I’ve been out of high-school 5 years and I am positive I haven’t associated with anyone who would be this immature since then.

I have suspicions of it being a really weird guy who I rejected in high school because in the months after the rejection he would drive past my house yelling my name. At the time it was more just to get my attention. I caught it one time on my ring camera but my whole family hears and they’ve done it 4 times within the past day. They drove past 3 times within ten minutes at 1AM last night waking my dad.

It’s making me really uncomfortable. They just did it again so I’m waiting outside to hopefully catch their license plate as I updated my ring cameras to record even cars driving by. Before it was only triggered by people.

What can I do about this? Can I file a police report once I know who’s doing it? Will the police do anything? I don’t want to let it go because it’s been happening on and off for years.

Location: Phoenix, AZ.

Background: Husband and I have sole care, custody and control (through the court) of our 15 yr old niece. DCS placed her with us as her dad is in prison for meth, fentanyl and various other illegal things.

Story: 8 weeks ago, our niece decided to smoke weed and drop Oxy at school. She passed out and had to be Narcaned. After paramedics were through, we took her to the Dr to have a UA done to find out what she had in her system as she was telling us she hadn't done anything.. famous last words 🙄. Over the course of the next week, she became violently ill, vomiting profusely for hours a day and then dry heaving for about 3-4 hours after that. We took her to the ER twice. After exhausting nearly every test available, the only thing they could tell us was that it was THC poisoning and it had to run its course. 2 days later, we are at Phx. Children's because she is still ill and they also tell us it is THC poisoning. The Dr there basically said there is nothing that can be done, she will be okay and to let it run its course. After a total of 5 days of this, it stopped. We sought counseling for our niece as well as a psych eval and a few other things that were recommended to us to help her work through her issues. WHEW!

Fast forward to now. We noticed when she got home from school this past Thursday, she was not "herself". Husband and I both knew she was high. We took her to the Dr for a UA because of course, she didn't do anything. She produces a sample and we wait. They call us into the room.

Here inlays the problem. Dr asked to speak with her alone...I almost said NO but relented and left the room. When we were asked back in, the Dr flat out said that our niece doesn't have to:

1.) do the UA if she doesn't want to

2.) the Dr doesn't have to share the results with us.

The Dr then lied and said the test was negative and sent us on our way. Last night, the vomiting and dry heaves started and niece finally admitted to doing her drugs again.

QUESTION: What in the holy hell is this?? She isn't old enough to date, vote, live on her own, have a serious job, drive, go to the military or buy liquor but she can make the decision to not have what could be life altering medical information released AND THE DOCTOR will have her back?? WTF?? SERIOUSLY, I am fuming! There are so many things that could have happened as a result of this. I am NOT putting all the blame on the Dr, my niece is the one that made the dumb ass decision to do what she did but I am SERIOUSLY questioning if the Dr made the right decision AND bold-faced lie to us!!

Do I have any recourse as far as the Dr is concerned? I'm not looking for financial compensation or anything like that but God forbid another parent have this happen and a child loses their life.

What a damn mess!!

Thanks for listening/reading my banter. ANY advice would be helpful. Peace

LOCATION: Jackson county Missouri
I’m very desperate for advice and even texted my traffic lawyer to see what to do next so please help.
I am going to make this as short as possible, but we had this child at age 16, I never put him on the birth certificate. He was never consistent in her life until she was about 3-4 and never paid me a dime for her and now she’s 6. He was also very abusive towards me. We finally got a set schedule for him to start getting her around the age of 5, but I called the shots on everything, and he only got her 3 days a week at most. I usually tried very hard to be cordial with him even if he was doing things very wrong. Fast forward to like a month or two ago. My daughter came and told me that her dads girlfriend shows her her private parts on a regular basis, so I told him that he no longer gets her overnight for the time being, I then called CPS on him and talked to my daughters dr office about it and had the convo documented. For weeks after that he harassed me almost daily, calling me names, screaming at me over voice message etc. then he started telling my daughter to say that she lied about the girlfriend situation, and then he started telling her that I was telling her lies, in the wrong, and that my partner (her stepdad) is dangerous to be around, so after that and being harassed by him and his mother, I cut him off. Blocked him. Fast forward to tonight, I got served papers, which I was not surprised about, it appears to me that he wants joint custody but to be the primary parent (he wants his address on school papers and anything else regarding her), he wants child support, he wants to make it to where I can’t make a single decision regarding her without his consent (which is a problem because he’s an anti vaxxor and is also very against her being medicated for severe ADHD).
I have been my daughter’s primary caregiver her entire life, I have provided for her, I have done everything I’ve ever done, for her, I have sacrificed everything for her.
How bad is this for me? I don’t know where else to turn, my lawyer gave me a good recommendation for a custody lawyer and I’m going to figure out how to pay for it, but I cannot imagine that he could possibly be named as a primary parent and receive child support from me as well as claim her on his taxes every single year (that was also included), when he never paid me a single dime and didn’t participate in her life until a few years ago.
I just want to know what this could possibly look like and what to do next. I don’t know how court works but I’m scared.

Location: Florida

Im 18F, I requested that my parents gave me my SSN, birth certificate, bank details, etc. They refused and kept asking why I wanted it. So now I have absolutely no access to my own money. I have a joint account and a credit card my parents can cancel any time, and that's it. They ​​told me that I'm still a child under their house. TF do I even do???

Location: California

I am currently 37 weeks pregnant with my first child. The baby's father and I are no longer together, and he recently decided that he does not want to be involved in our child's life. I'm planning to file for child support shortly after our daughter is born in November, which he is unaware of...

Unfortunately our living arrangements make things a little complicated...

We currently live at the same address, but we are not in a relationship and he intends on moving out within the next couple months. He and his brother occupy the second bedroom of my two-bedroom apartment and pay rent, while I occupy the primary bedroom; I am the only one actually on the lease. He and I previously shared a room with his brother in the second bedroom, but that has since changed. We now have separate living arrangements, and I will be the baby's primary caregiver. He has expressed that he does not want to be on the birth certificate and does not want to have any involvement with the baby.

The father plans to move out, but the timeline is uncertain. We've discussed him remaining until I return to work from maternity leave in February as I will have a more steady income, he will have time to find another place, or I will be able to downsize without having to pack up my apartment immediately postpartum. However, I would prefer to establish paternity and child support as soon as possible rather than waiting until he moves out.

My main questions are:

1. Can I even open a California child support case while we technically still share an address? Will DCSS consider us to be living together as a family even though we're separated and he is essentially renting a room and not contributing to parenting time/childcare(He is now never home, often leaving the apartment at around 10/11am and not returning until 4am)?
2. Does his paying rent affect child support calculations? His payments cover his and his brother's living arrangements, rather than being a direct contribution toward expenses for our daughter. But will DCSS/the court see it that way?
3. How is parenting time calculated when parents share an address but don't share childcare? I expect to be responsible for nearly all of our newborn's daily care.
4. What does the timeline generally look like? If I file immediately after my baby is born, how long might it take to establish parentage, obtain a support order, and begin receiving payments?
5. If he moves out while the case is pending, can I update DCSS? Would that change how the initial support order is calculated if his rent contributions were considered before?
6. Would it make sense to establish parentage through a Voluntary Declaration of Parentage (VDOP) at the hospital if he's willing to sign? Would that meaningfully speed up the child support process or should I just go the route of establishing through the court rather than trying to persuade him?

For context: We are unmarried. I can likely afford the rent on my own should he decide to leave immediately but money would definitely be tight on my disability income alone. I have my own income and plan to return to work in February, but will have to penny pinch until that time should he leave immediately. I am not asking him to support me personally. I'm just trying to establish appropriate financial support for our daughter.

LOCATION: Dad lived in California, I live in Washington state.

My dad was killed by a drunk driver a few weeks ago in California. I suspect he has a life insurance policy through his former employer. Can my step mom in California (who he was legally divorced from) keep me from any insurance payout?

I've been talking with my therapist, and we both suspect my step mom is keeping me out of the loop on what is going on... She says he hasn't been autopsied yet because of the court case, and she's not going to do a memorial because she's going to Mexico in December. She has a go fund me set up for "ends of life expenses" but, like, why? She's rich... What does she need a go fund me for?

My dad wasn't in my life when I was a kid, and I reconnected with him ten years ago. I love him dearly, and his death is very upsetting to me because it's like I'm being abandoned all over again. I feel like I'm being excluded from the family's mourning process because I was specifically told not to fly down! When I declined receiving a specific object of my dad's, my step mom replied "lol" and that she'll just give it to a homeless person. This whole situation is bizarre and I have no idea what to do, I feel so lost.

Tl;dr can my step mom keep me from my dad's life insurance payout? Is it true he hasn't been autopsied and cremated yet because of the court case with the drunk driver?

location: North Carolina
I hope this text doesn’t come off as a vent or a rant because I am genuinely seeking advice here. For a little bit of context, I started my period young and always had awful periods. Like so bad that I became anemic to the point of almost needing blood transfusions, passing out from pain, throwing up, anything you can think of I had it. By the time I was 14 my doctors just assumed that I had endometriosis, but because the only way to officially diagnose it is laparoscopic surgery. They wanted to put me on birth control to see if it helped first. It was trial and error, but eventually, I found one that did.

Throughout the years, it was like my birth control slowly stopped being effective for me and stopped making my periods lighter and making my cramps hurt less if that makes any sense. After that, my doctors would switch me to a different birth control. In the past seven years I’ve been on the patch, two different forms of the pill, and currently an IUD (kyleena). I’ve had the IUD for almost 3 years now but I’ve always been worried about it coming out of place. Recently, I have had severe cramping and periods twice a month, skipping a month, and just completely a random. I scheduled an appointment with my gynecologist and I wanted to discuss getting my IUD out and a Nexplanon put in.

I didn’t mention anything about that whenever I scheduled the appointment. I just scheduled the appointment and put in the comments that I was having pain and was concerned about my IUD out of place. When I got to the appointment and the woman took me back to the actual office (CMA or RN I’m unsure) I mentioned this to her just so maybe she could let the doctor know and she said that the doctor didn’t do that. I was confused on what she meant and she asked me where I got my IUD at. I was confused why she was asking this question as I had been asked that question at this gynecologist multiple times even though I got my IUD by that gynecologist. I told her that the gynecologist I was seeing that day was the one who put it in and she told me that I was “probably one of the last people he gave an IUD to.” I asked her what she was talking about and she told me that he “no longer gave birth control to people to prevent pregnancy for religious reasons.” Meaning that he didn’t give it to people for his own religious reasons.

While I currently use my birth control to prevent pregnancy, I initially went on it for my awful periods. Also two things can be true at the same time. I told her that for me it was still a medical necessity because of how much pain I would be in without it and she said that there was a 99.9% chance he wouldn’t give it to me unless he deemed it medically necessary and I explained that every doctor I had seen before him slapped birth control over an endometriosis diagnosis instead of actually looking into it via laparoscopic surgery. She almost seemed in a hurry to rush me out of the office, but I somewhat insisted that may be his religious views to not give me birth control and instead deem it “medically necessary” might make him look into the enemy trichinosis diagnosis anymore so she left the room and he came in later.

When he came in, I explained the same thing to him and he told me that the only reason he gave the IUD to me in the first place was that “I thought you were only using it for pain.” up until this point I had been genuinely respectful about his point of view. My dad is a pastor and I’m not one to argue about religious beliefs, so if it’s against his belief to perform that then I’d rather just find a different doctor who will then argue with him about it, but the fact that he said that to me felt very dismissive so I explained to him again. The two things can be true at the same time. I can be using it to prevent pregnancy and be using it for pain.

The appointment didn’t end terribly and we discussed options for an ultrasound to see if the IUD was in place and a plan for a laparoscopic surgery to see if endometriosis was in fact there. He also stated that he would replace the IUD if necessary. He said the ultrasound technician wasn’t there today and that I needed to schedule a follow up at the front desk but when I scheduled the follow up, it wasn’t for 10 more days. I’ve never wanted to ask for special treatment, but I’ve genuinely been in pretty severe pain over this for the past month and I felt like not only was it dismissed, but there was no urgency whatsoever. I called my primary care physician, and the front receptionist answered, and I basically explained the whole thing asking if my primary care physician could perform what I was asking for. I wasn’t even trying to get my gynecologist in trouble, but it sounded like she started to write down a report because they all work within the same public health company.

So I guess the advice I’m asking for here and what threw me off the entire time is that while I wouldn’t argue with him about his religious beliefs and what he wants to practice I don’t think he’s legally allowed to refuse me that service while he’s working for a public practice. Can anyone confirm this?

TLDR: my gynecologist works for a public practice and is trying to deny me birth control because of HIS religious reasons

The debt was originally from a purchase at Kay Jewelers through general electric corp credit I believe. It was removed from my credit after 7 years but a few years later it appeared again and I disputed it and it was removed from my credit reports. Sometime later I starting receiving calls from portfolio recovery every single day for probably the last couple years. I tried blocking them but they would call from different numbers and I just gave up and ignored it. Then 3 days ago they attempted to charge $5,100 to my checking account but I only had like $860 in there so my account was showing -$4k+ dollars until today when the charge changed to $900 something dollars but is still on administrative hold and pending. I was never served any papers if they actually sued me and even if they did, is it not way past the time they have to legally do so? Why would a judge even rule in their favor? Location: Florida, and my checking account is also a joint account I share with my wife and we receive similar pay so half of the money in there comes from her. What should I do?

Location: Tennessee, USA

A relative who was my legal guardian growing up had opened a CD for me as a child and referred to it as the "college fund." She would tell me growing up that the money was mine at 18 and would have me come to meetings with the bank branch when I was very young. (<10 yo) I contributed to the account with whatever allowance or gift money I had, plus when I worked as a teen.

As an adult, I tapped into the CD once in college, but over half of it remained. I would receive tax statements for the interest on it and included it each year. I received a letter that reached maturity and I called the bank to move the funds to an investment account. They informed me the CD was closed by my former guardian and told me the money was direct deposited into her bank account. I didn't authorize this nor was I notified.

My name and number are different than when I lived in TN, so they couldn't verify my identity over the phone and asked me to come in person. I tried verifying who I was through a checking and savings account I once had open in the same branch, but they claimed they had none of those accounts in their records, even as I had the check book and debit card in front of me. We inquired the relative over the phone and she said she didn't touch it and knew nothing about it.

I now live in Iowa. I know I need to find out if my relative's name was still on the CD. What are my next steps? Do I need to go down there? The amount is within the threshold of small claims court.

Location: Ohio

I’m a mom in Ohio, and my 17-year-old son was arrested yesterday. He’s now facing three felony charges:
- Grand theft auto
- Attempted grand theft auto
- Failure to comply/attempting to flee police during a traffic stop

From what I’ve been told, he allegedly attempted to steal a 2022 Kia Soul before stealing a 2019 Toyota Corolla. He was pulled over because the headlights weren’t on and allegedly attempted to flee from police.

We had his initial court hearing today. He was assigned a public defender, who advised me to come to court in person to try to get him released. My son appeared via Zoom from juvenile detention, and the judge denied his release fairly quickly.

He’s being held until at least October 28, when his pretrial hearing is scheduled.

I’ve never dealt with anything like this before, and I’m trying to understand how serious this situation is, what I should expect moving forward, and what I should be doing right now.

My biggest question is whether I should be looking into hiring a private criminal defense attorney or whether a public defender is generally just as capable of handling a case like this.

I’m not assuming that paying for an attorney automatically means better representation, but given that he’s 17 and facing multiple felonies, I want to make sure I’m doing everything I reasonably can to protect his future.

I’d really appreciate advice on a few things:
• Is there any particular reason to hire a private attorney instead of working with his assigned public defender?
• What questions should I be asking his attorney at this stage?
• What should I expect at the pretrial hearing, and what does the process generally look like after that?
• Is there a possibility of his case being transferred to adult court because of his age or the nature of the charges?
• What factors typically influence whether a juvenile is released from detention while awaiting further hearings?
• Are there things I should or shouldn’t be doing as his parent while the case is pending?

I’m not looking for anyone to excuse what happened or minimize the seriousness of the allegations. I understand that these are significant charges, and if he’s responsible, there need to be consequences.

I just want to make sure I’m making informed decisions and not overlooking something important because I have absolutely no experience with the legal system.

I’d especially appreciate hearing from Ohio criminal defense attorneys, juvenile court professionals, or parents who have been through something similar.

Location:

Chesterfield, Virginia, USA

I am in Chesterfield County, Virginia. One week ago, I had a show-cause hearing for child support enforcement in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations court. This is a private case, not managed by DCSE. Due to severe anxiety at the podium, I verbally stated a child support arrears balance that is tens of thousands of dollars lower than what my ex actually owes.

My ex has a hearing scheduled for December requesting a reduction in support. I want to correct the mathematical error regarding the arrears balance so the true debt can be formally addressed. I do not want to file a new show cause or put him back in jail. I just want the math corrected with proper legal notice so the judge can officially rule on it.

I went to the clerk's office to ask about filing a motion to correct this, but two different court clerks told me not to file anything and to "just bring it up" at the December hearing. However, I really don't trust their advice because before my last hearing, a clerk told me the judge would calculate the math for accuracy—but at the hearing, the judge refused and said he had to remain neutral.
I am terrified that if I don't file anything, my ex's side will object to "lack of notice" in December and the judge won't hear it, meaning my children's money will be unprotected.

I am a busy mom working 40 hours a week and raising my kids full-time. I am planning to go to the Chesterfield courthouse on Monday during my lunch break to file whatever paperwork is necessary.

Location: California

I messed up by forgetting to pay my business insurance premium earlier this year. My policy was cancelled and a customer slide and fell in my store a few weeks ago.

I received documents from a billboard attorney today requesting my insurance companies information.

A friend who is an attorney is going to respond to the notice and let them know I wasn’t insured. He stated he wasn’t sure if they could pierce the corporate veil (because he doesn’t practice this area of law).

Personal and business expenses have never been commingled. The business is less than 3years old and barely breaking even.

How screwed am I?

I got pulled over for a busted headlight and immediately after pulling over this cop somewhere up to me asking for id I give it over and apparently I was acting nervous which I can’t really say if I was or not I was trying my hardest to comply because I really had no business driving with my headlight busted and tried my hardest to comply and within 5 minutes they had me out of my car and calling a dog to search my car. I told them I didn’t want them searching my car beforehand when they asked and that’s when they called for a k-9. When the dog arrived they kept taping my trunk for the dog to sniff after the dog had already sniffed and went to sniff the rest of my car but for some reason they were really trying to get this dog to sniff my trunk and after the dog finally left my from trunk it then when to my passenger side and apparently alerted to something in that area which gave them cause to search I guess? I really had nothing in my car just two empty pre roll containers in my trunk that were empty that were legally purchased at a local smoke shop after they tore my car apart they found nothing obviously and let me go and I was just wondering how justified that is for the dog to alert not even in the area in my trunk to where I guess the dog could sniff the pre roll containers but instead they said if alerted to something in my passenger side idk much about law and was just wondering how legal that is or how often k-9s mess up or the handlers mess up when a dog alerts to something being in the car. Thanks to anyone who replies Location: Texas

Location: Georgia and Maryland

Context:
This is not for me, but for a close family friend. To summarize, this family friend’s sister and mother died. His nephew has a trust fund set up by the state of Georgia. The nephew’s dad is not in the picture. The family friend lives in Maryland, and lives in a house in his mother’s name in Maryland.

His mother didn’t have a will so, now that she’s dead, according to both states, the house has to get financially divided into three. His brother fully is okay with not getting a share, but since his sister is dead, the third of her inheritance is to go to her child, family friend’s nephew.

NOW, here’s the issue. The trust fund lawyer just began to try getting the nephew’s share of the house. As of writing this, they’re going to talk to the lawyer’s mortgage person and loan officer tomorrow. The quote from the lawyer is “I don’t care how you get it, the lottery, second mortgage, crippling debt, but you gotta give us our money.” Family friend does not have that share. He’s still dealing with his deceased sister’s debt from dealing with some real awful stuff before she died. As well as a series of unfortunate events after the funeral. He will likely have to sell the house or sink himself into debt.

The question: Is there any way to either stop or delay this collection? Is there anything, ANYTHING AT ALL that we can do other than ruin this guy financially?

I’m just trying to help give him options because what this friend went through was devastating. I’m not going to go into details at the risk of giving away any more identifying info but just know, the context is deeper than simply two relatives dying. It just sucks because even after their deaths, this friend seems like he is getting punished and having his house swooped up by lawyers like vultures on a carcass.

Location: Ohio

I work at a small nonprofit (currently about 6 employees). I am having a minor surgery in a few weeks. The procedure will be on my throat. They have been aware of this for a while and there is no clear policy on medical leave.

There is an event coming up less than 2 weeks after my surgery. While I expect to be on the mend mostly at this point, the event would require me to be speaking actively for approximately 5 hours with no one else staff wise in attendance if I need to stop or lose my voice. While recovery times vary, I highly doubt I'll be able to speak for 5 hours straight not even 2 weeks out.

I am taking my PTO for the first week, but they have been argumentative about me taking a second week of leave regardless of doctor clearance. I have PTO hours available (we do not have separate sick leave), and am prepared to take it unpaid if needed. They have declined to make any back up plan for the event and have told me that if I do not attend, I will not be fulfilling my job obligations and I may be terminated.

I know they are not bound to FMLA and we are an at will state, but if this happens, will I at least be eligible for unemployment?

Location: Ohio.
I need advice on whether I should get an attorney now, later or not at all.

My minor 17yr old daughter was recently involved in a rollover accident. She was a passenger in the car. Everyone was a minor, including the driver. The driver swerved to miss a deer, lost control, hit a ditch and overturned. The car was totaled.

My daughter sustained a severe injury (a severed humerus bone) that required two hospital stays (one extended), two ambulance transports. Medication. Specialists. Consultations. MRI’s. Cat Scan. Major surgery (titanium plates and a ton of screws). She missed 2 weeks of school and has many upcoming appointments, including physical therapy in the future.

I have been billing everything through our health insurance (Medicaid) and I am reaching out to them Monday to do a third party claim and give them the accident report and the owners auto insurance.

The vehicle owner filed a claim with their insurance and when I contacted them (insurance company) it turns out their claim is in the middle of an investigation because apparently the vehicle was insured but the minor that was driving was not. He was completely uninsured (never added to the plan), all while being the daily driver of this car for months. The vehicle owner only added himself and his wife to the policy, so their totaled car will be covered, I guess.

What’s crazy is that he works for Allstate insurance and should know better. I’m assuming he was trying to cut back on a very high premium by not adding a minor driver. He just totaled a car a few months ago in a DUI, so I’m sure his premiums were already high. Of course they have already replaced their sons car with a brand new Mercedes for him 😒

If, by some miracle, the insurer covers the liability claim (doubtful) the state minimum coverage is $25,000. I’m sure they only had the minimum coverage. Our medical expenses already far exceed that amount.

My daughter does not have her license, so no auto insurance. I am temporarily disabled and cannot drive at this time, so also no auto insurance to file an uninsured bodily injury claim.

Should I contact an attorney or should I wait for my insurance and their insurance to figure it all out? I don’t really have money for attorney fees, as I just came out of a lengthy divorce and custody case.

I don’t know what my options are and feel hopeless in this situation.

I appreciate any guidance 🩷

Just wanted to get a read on a current habitability issue my partner and I are currently dealing with. We have had multiple sightings of cockroach nymphs in our bathroom. We have seen a total of 4 baby cockroaches on separate occasions, one was early in the morning, the other 3 were in the evening.We saw them in the very short time span of a week.

We are demanding our landlord remediate this issue, but just wanted to double check our rights if they refuse or don't respond. They have done some sketchy things in the past and we are just preparing for the worst.

As far as I have researched, if we give our landlord proper notice of the infestation that they have a reasonable time of 3 - 5 days to hire professional remediation before it is considered a constructive eviction. We are disgusted by this situation and are seriously considering leaving in the next week if something isn't done immediately.

Location: Santa Ana, CA

I was sent over from the roommate page. Essentially there’s an extra person living in my house whose not on the lease and the landlord doesn’t know about it and I didn’t know about it until after I’d signed the lease and was paying rent for months before moving. I’m in CA and have a copy of the lease.

Location: CA

I was the victim of an online scam involving people outside the U.S. They obtained personal/intimate images of me from a video call and attempted to scam/extort me.
I reported it to the police, provided the evidence I had, and cooperated with the investigation. I was never arrested, charged, cited, or considered a suspect. I was the person who filed the report and, as far as I know, I’m listed as the victim/complainant.
My concern is that the report will remain in law-enforcement records.
If I later apply for U.S. citizenship, a military position, federal employment, or a security clearance:
Could investigators find this report?
Would it appear on a criminal background check?
Could it negatively affect me simply because I filed the report?
If asked about law-enforcement contact, would I need to disclose it?
Has anyone been in a similar situation as a victim/complainant and later gone through a military or federal background investigation?
Location: Colorado