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Name change for a new born baby in California

Location: California So long story short my ex and I have a baby that was born in early October of last month. She had a 4 going on 5 year old. We met in October of 2024. Long distance dated till s...

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Confused After Neighbor’s Tree Destroyed My Fence In The Middle Of The Night

location: oregon Last week around three in the morning I woke up to a crack that sounded like a car hitting the house. When I went outside with a flashlight I found that my neighbor’s giant fir tre...

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My landlord wants to charge me for “emergency repairs” that I never authorized. Is that even legal?

Location: Colorado, USA. Last week my landlord texted me saying a “contractor” needed to come in asap because of a supposed leak in the unit below mine. I never saw any leak, but he insisted it was...

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HOA maintenance guy took photos inside my condo and now they're accusing me of an "unapproved modification". What are my rights?

Location: Colorado So something weird happnd at my condo building and I'm kinda freaking out cuz I dont know if I messed up legally or not. Few weeks ago our HOA hired a new maintenance guy. Super ...

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MA: Demoted while on PFMLA Leave

Location: Boston, MA I’m currently on approved PFMLA leave for the birth of a child and set to return to work next Tuesday. Last week, my boss messaged me, instructing me to check my work inbox for...

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Dad in jail wants his money

So my dad went to county jail the beginning of October for something stupid he did that resulted in 2 misdemeanors and a felony. In these 2 months he has burned through about $500 in money put on h...

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Customer Won a Chargeback After Major Auto Repair — Can I Still Sue to Recover the Money?

Hi everyone, I own a small automotive repair shop in Louisiana and need some legal guidance on a chargeback that a customer filed. A customer had their Infiniti towed to my shop because it was undr...

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My car was smashed/totaled by a 16 year old that claims he fell asleep at the wheel and can’t get his insurance to help

As the title says essentially. Location: USGeorgia My mom borrowed my car with expressed permission and she had my daughter in the back seat. They were stopped at a red light when this occurred so ...

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Unhinged neighbor -- what to do

Location: Colorado We (2 adults and 4 kids) have lived in our house for about 12 years. It is a city lot and houses are close together. During those 12 years, our neighbor complains to us incessant...

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my wife left me with nothing after confronting her about her cheating, I have ALS

She took everything. Location: PNW Long story short, I was diagnosed with ALS a few months ago, and knew that I wanted to focus as much as I could on treatment, plus saving for my wife and I to tra...

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Charged with DUI for marijuana when I wasn’t under the influence

Hey everyone, I really need some help and advice because I haven’t even slept since this happened. I’m 19 and last night in Greeley, Colorado, I got pulled over for “weaving.” This was literally my...

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Being harassed online by an old coworker who has recently developed schizophrenia. Is there anything I can do to protect myself legally if no explicit threats to my safety have been made?

Hi all, Location: I am in New Mexico and the coworker is in California. For the last three months, a former coworker (who I have not spoken to in nearly two years) has been posting about me online...

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My apartment is uninhabitable and refusing to break my lease

Location: Connecticut. I moved into an apartment less than three weeks ago and immediately saw evidence of a cockroach infestation. On my second night in the apartment, a cockroach crawled across m...

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Can my employer require me to use a personal debit card for company business?

Location: Los Angeles, CA I work at a check cashing store, and one of the services we offer is paying parking tickets. A lot of our clients either can't or don't know how to pay their parking tick...

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Abusive Business Partner, Online Business, being blocked from digital assets. Looking for a lawyer.

Location: State of Washington I have an online business with a partner who has blocked my access to all of the digital assets, has deleted my website without consent, has threatened to delete my yo...

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Father/GP stopped my partnership distributions but continues paying siblings - is this legal?

Location: Bay Area I'm a limited partner in a California LP along with my three siblings. My father is the general partner and also holds 51% through his trust. My siblings and I each own 12%. The ...

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My former roommate is not letting me collect my belongings after improperly evicting me

Location: Pierce County in Washington state. I (F29) was renting from a woman (61) from mid-April until this last Sunday. We had no written contract for the arrangement, but had an agreement that s...

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Union job permanently closed without warning, being forced to come in and tear it down?

Location: NYC I have worked in a union hotel in New York City as the host for 3 years, on Wednesday November 19 we had an entire hotel meeting stating our restaurant will have the last of service d...

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FL: landlord rented me an unpermitted unit that is NOT up to code and NOT zoned for rental use. The illegal plumbing caused a sewage backup that damaged the majority of my belongings. City hall told the owner they need to terminate the lease immediately.

LOCATION: FLORIDA Hello, First of all, I do NOT want to stay. I haven’t even been able to use the apartment because I could not get mail there, so I could not get internet equipment delivered, and ...

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Stripper turned nurse has a weird situation.

Location: Texas I have been a licensed vocational nurse in Texas for 25 years. Recently I’ve gone back to school for my RN and graduate in March. In 1998 I was a topless entertainer as I was making...

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Can my boss really make me pay for shoplifting losses out of my paycheck

Location: Illinois, USA I work part time at a small indie bookstore. Last week my boss called a "quick meeting" and handed all of us a new one page policy to sign. It basically says that any "preve...

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