Legal

HOA nonsense

Location: Washington state We bought a house eight years ago. Real estate listing said we were in an HOA. Agent reiterated it. Day we moved in, an HOA person showed up to tell us where to mail our ...

Credit:

Legal guardianship - adult child ran away from home and left the state

Location: Kansas I’m going to try to keep this as brief as I can… but it’s a long story. My wife and I (both women, late 30s and mid 40s) adopted our daughter out of foster care. We live in Kansas,...

Credit:

car accident: younger sibling naive and got taken advantage of by an older man

i will say we already know it was a very stupid decision. in new york state, my brother scratched someones car in a parking lot. no one was in the other car during the accident. he stayed to give h...

Credit:

Where do I begin with getting custody of my younger sibling?

Location: Michigan. Some background: My youngest sibling is 15, she lives with my mom (46) and her dad (47), who is loosely like a step-dad to me. Since buying a house three years ago, I've been l...

Credit:

restraining order worth it?

location: Los Angeles. Me and my bf have been dating for five years. For the past two years his ex gf who he only dated for less than a year in 2016, has been harassing us, stalking us, and sexuall...

Credit:

Teacher Quit Without Notice, School Wants $1,000 Immediately. Worth Fighting?

Location: North Carolina, USA I’m a teacher who has been working at a toxic school for the last year. I worked my last day yesterday, and I told them that it would be my last day yesterday. EDIT: I...

Credit:

Employer wants me to sign an IP agreement saying they own software I wrote two years before I started working there

Location: California I work as a software engineer for a company that makes logistics software for businesses. I've been there about 18 months. Two years before I joined, I built an open-source des...

Credit:

A company I interviewed with is listing me as a "Senior Advisor" on its website and sales deck. I have never worked for them.

location: California In May I interviewed three times with a small software company for an operations role. I eventually withdrew because we couldn't agree on compensation. I never signed an employ...

Credit:

Someone dropped a trailer in my yard, what steps should I take? (Pennsylvania)

Last week, while the wife and I were on our first legitimate vacation in some time, our neighbor texted us to inform us that someone had dropped a boat in our yard. I called him and he explained th...

Credit:

Michigan: A former friend whose yacht I was doing repair work on took me out on Lake Michigan without my consent then snapped and put me in fear of my life.

Location: Michigan He refused to return to shore, tried to evict me from the boat after pleading with him to stop violently yelling at me to do things for him that would put myself in danger, and f...

Credit:

[TX] Hotel requires me to stay on 3rd-floor “pet floor” because of my service dog. Elevator has now broken about 5 times and I rely on a wheelchair. What are my options?

Location: Fort Worth, TX I'm in Texas and have been living at a combined Studio 6/Motel 6 property with my husband for several months. I'm trying to understand what rights I have under the ADA and ...

Credit:

Parents want me to take guardianship of my sibling for benefits

I (20, living with my parents, financially dependent and struggling with my income) am concerned about a plan my parents are trying to convince me to participate in. They want me to have co-guardia...

Credit:

My toxic ”manager” asked to search my bag after I clocked out with no warning

Hi I (30f) work in a small business retail store. I’m close with the owner and was in between jobs when I started working there. There are hardly any employees (me, a man [who was the manager for 1...

Credit:

Lease started sept 1 apt still not ready what are my options

Location: Massachusetts. My lease was supposed to start Sept 1. Management company called and advised tenant didn’t vacate on time so there is a delay until sept 5 for me to move in as they need to...

Credit:

Can law enforcement help me pick up my vehicle from repo lot?

My vehicle was repossessed on 8/28, and on that same day I called my bank and was able to do a wire transfer for everything that I owed. So I paid off my dues and am current on the loan, then the b...

Credit:

My girlfriends car was chopped

I'm still trying to fit all the pieces together on this one, but this is what I understand of the situation. About three months ago my girlfriend hired a guy to do some work on her vehicle, just so...

Credit:

Missouri, USA - My factory job does not offer any breaks or lunches, what is the legality of that?

Location: MO, USA I work in a factory making electrical wire for construction purposes. We work 12 hour shifts, and every line in the plant gets four 10 min breaks and one 30 min lunch except for m...

Credit:

Minnesota lease situation: I want to end my lease 24 hours after getting keys due to home condition

Cross posted from r/asklawyers Location: Minnesota Hi! Would love some thoughts from this community, specifically those familiar with Minnesota landlord/tenant law to help me understand my positio...

Credit:

I need legal advice on what happened to me and how to categorize it legally

Location: Arizona So I’m pretty sure this is the right subreddit to post this. When I was a child (6-15yrs old) I lived in an extremely abusive household where my father’s girlfriend abused me and...

Credit:

Someone hit me in a car accident almost 2 years ago and is suing me

Location: Los Angeles I was driving on a main street and the other driver going in the opposite direction made an unprotected left turn in front of me. He was turning onto a neighborhood street wh...

Credit:

California, USA- Want to honor Dad's funeral preference.

Location: California My dad lives in California, and I’m trying to figure out how to protect his final wishes while he’s still alive. He’s married to my stepmother, and recently I found out she has...

Credit: