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Contractor is in jail, has my deposit

Location: kansas, USA Hello. I was wondering what my options are to get my deposit back from a contractor. I hired a licensed contractor to build me a deck back in July 2026. I had to put down 60...

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Warranty Issue on New Construction Home - Florida

Location: Florida My fiancé and I purchased a new construction home from a well-known builder. Our home inspector found no major problems at closing. We had a follow-up inspection before the one-ye...

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Cops reaching out about a YouTube video

Do I reach out to the cops park cops who contacted me. I do videos where I hike back into cool buildings and all that are on public land, I have been reached out to by park police asking me to cont...

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Sexual harassment case?

Location: NYC Context: I‘m a secretary and sent a message to my boss late at night telling him I finished a task. He responded and began asking me questions about if I got home OK, basic checking ...

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Location: California - Resident's right to HOA documents

Location: California Our HOA has a paid consulting arborist and is in the process of removing several huge, beautiful trees that are at least 50 years old. Some or all of these trees currently bein...

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Neighbor's dog barks constantly all day and all night. What else can be done if the cops and animal control refuse to help?

Location: North Carolina, United States. (Inside city limits and non rural) This has been going on for over a year. We have called the non emergency PD number so many times they know it is us and k...

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Crazy neighbor

Location: Oregon. Hi, I live in Oregon, as does my brother, let's call him Barry (age 27). I was walking my dog around his apartment complex when a neighbor, Mary (~age 35), asked to pet my dog. I ...

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Fiancé got a felony DV charge in Ada county, Idaho. We live in Wisconsin. What can I realistically expect?

Location: Ada county, Idaho. Residence is in WSE Wisconsin. Sorry if this is all jumbled. I’m just trying to be okay, panic attacks are making it hard to think. Fiancé is currently in jail for dom...

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Family conspired to take custody of my children

Location: Tennessee reposting a shortened version Wife + 4 kids (2 adult, 11, and 4). Wife relapsed late 2025 after years clean. We were actively arranging paid detox (insurance refused coverage) ...

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Tennessee- questions about 4473/red flag law/ NICS backgrounds

Location: Tennessee Hi, Can someone please advise me on how I can access if my 72 hour involuntary psychiatric hold was shared or reported to the state and if I am in the NICS system as a “mental ...

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Dealer sold me a lemon.

location: new jersey i’m 17 in NJ. My family and I bought a 2017 Hyundai Elantra in NJ for $4,500 cash from a licensed dealer/mechanic. The dealer information/license number is on the vehicle titl...

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Neighbors Dispute

Hello! We've been having an issue with our neighbors, and I'm coming here to see if there's anything that we can do to legally get them off our backs. About two years ago, we managed to buy a hous...

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WA state CIR laws

Location: Washington state Been with my partner for 17 years. Living together for 16. Unmarried. No children. We started a business together 10 years ago, it's an LLC in their name only. I buil...

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Immigration law question

Location: I recently am dealing with a major issue at the Canadian USA border. I am a USA citizen and resident but still hold my PR in Canada to care for my kids after a divorce. I cross border dai...

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Witness Harassing Me

Location: NH Without getting into too much detail I am facing 2 criminal cases. The prosecution’s “star” witness in both is my next door neighbor. I have been VERY careful not to have any interacti...

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Client not paying me for completed work

Location: California I’m a landscape designer and my client ghosted me on their 3rd invoice because they don’t like the design (despite it being what they asked for). I mostly communicated with the...

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pawn shop advice

Location: Texas Hello guys, I need help/advice A couple of months ago, I went into a pawnshop and they had an item I wanted so I put it on layaway. Not even a few weeks after I went back and basic...

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Is my friend responsible to pay?

Location: Illinois Okay reddit, here's the situation: a friend of mine had a verbal agreement with her father that she would make the payments on his car and she would keep it until it was paid. At...

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Colorado LLC refusing to pay agreed daily rate for work trip to Bali + alleging NDA breach

Location: California, USA — other party/company is in Colorado, USA. Work at issue was performed in Bali, Indonesia. I’m in California and was hired as an independent contractor/assistant for a cre...

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Terminated from CA-based company while pregnant and caring for disabled child — remote employee in NC

Location: CA (recent PCS) I’m wondering if this is worth consulting an employment attorney about and which state’s laws would potentially apply. I worked remotely from North Carolina for a large t...

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(Illinois) Ex stole 95% of our joint savings - how do I get my part back?

Location: Illinois Edit for clarity: We were engaged for two years but never actually married I'm going to try to keep it short. Ex and I were together for 6 years and saving up specifically for a ...

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