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I apologize in advance, this is a long one. My 6yr old son is going through a lot of behavioral changes with his schizophrenia disorder on top of the autism and his chromosome disorder. He is usual...

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Can My Ex Use Gifts From My New Wife to Increase Child Support?

My ex filed for a child support increase and her lawyer sent me discovery. I don’t have an issue being transparent about my finances. I’m willing to disclose my income and I already spend a lot on ...

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Property taxes being paid by someone unknown

Location: California Someone is paying my property taxes by phone. This is the first year (2025-26) it's happened. The county will not say who is doing it (won't give me the phone number that was r...

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17 year old not wanting to go to dads house

Location: California My 17 year old son has been expressing his desire to stay primarily at my house for the past 6 months. I have been encouraging him to talk to his dad about his feelings as I d...

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Neighbor asking me to sign affidavit about boundary fence

Location: Long Island, NY. My neighbor is in contract to sell his house. There was a survey done showing that a roughly 50 foot section of fence between our properties is actually on the neighbor’s...

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I can’t see the child I raise for his entire life

Location: Wilmington, North Carolina. For the first year of my nephew’s life, I was his primary caregiver and lived with him for extended periods of time, often being several hours away from his p...

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My rapists mother is threatening legal action

My location: Ohio Hello all, this is a very startling and scary situation and I am in need of advice. Recently, I learned that my high school rapist (I'm in my mid 20s now) was a part of an all-fem...

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FL - How do I legally and without problems, sell my house that will soon have a registered sex offender living next door?

Location: Florida - Hoping to keep this short. HOA sent violation warnings and cease/desist letters to my neighbor for multiple and various serious infractions, which were ignored. After that, HOA ...

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My lying drug addicted sister got temporary guardianship in May and the courts ask me to prove she's a drug addict!!!

Location: Kings County Supreme Court, Brooklyn, NY I'm doing a cross petition and a tro today, However, my actively drug addicted sister offered to give my niece, 9my mother's choice of caregiver)...

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A metal water bottle was thrown at my head while at work. School district and admin are being weird.

Location: Washington State I work for a school district in WA state. A student overhand threw a metal water bottle at my forehead. I reported it immediately to the student's case manager and was to...

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AT&T sent me to collections

Location: South Carolina Back in December, I decided to try AT&T WiFi because I was tired of my bill from my current company. I went to their location and was told that I could do a 10 day tri...

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Aunt hospitalized - medical POA (?) / guardian (?) unreachable

Location: VA, USA My dad's sister who he isn't close with/who has had a difficult life (long backstory) is in the hospital. He went to visit her and she clearly had some kind of stroke/dementia or ...

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Will my old mental health history be used against me? (MO, USA)

Location: Missouri. My ex assaulted my toddler and me (with our newborn in my arms) and was charged with child abuse and domestic violence. He was deported before the cases could proceed. I filed ...

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Last minute default judgment

Location: Jefferson Parish, LA Allegedly, I had a credit line of $10,000 when I was 18. I have lived at the same address my entire life. Fast forward 15 years later. I have two children and their m...

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I got a $25k life insurance check from my dad’s passing and decided to buy a car from a friend….

Location: Ohio, USA When I got the check, the guy that had a vehicle for sale told me the car had 75000 miles on it, so we agreed on $7500. I didn’t have a bank account and I really needed the mon...

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Is this a HIPAA violation? What about ORS 192.553–192.581?

Location: Oregon The full email below, with everything personally identifying redacted, is one I received late Sunday night from a clinic where I saw a provider there twice. In slightly more profes...

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Ex wife accessed my medical records

Location: California I have been officially divorced for 3 years. Recently my ex wife told me she accessed my medical records and was confused as to why she could see them. She accesses over 25 rec...

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Former employer listed me as "not eligible for rehire" and it cost me a job offer.

Location: Washington state. I left my previous job voluntarily about a year ago, gave two weeks notice, completed all my handover documentation, and left on what I believed were good terms. My mana...

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Boyfriend threatening to post my nudes

LOCATION: I’m in NJ and he is moving. We are both early 20s. We dated for 6 months. He ended up cheating on me. It was a messy break up because I still really wanted it to be him. But I consider hi...

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Grandmother trying to steal our house

Location: Florida Long story but I want to be precise. My grandmother bought a house about 23 years ago. She took a handshake loan from my uncle to place a down payment which she never repaid. My f...

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My lawyer forgot about my restraining order hearing on 3/10

Location: Missouri, USA Apparently lawyer only (to my mind) seemes to heavily imply that she was doing it, referring to talking to the judge about it if she happened to be in court and such. I didn...

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