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Photo lab gave another customer scans of my family’s old negatives and now some are online

Location: Minnesota I brought a few boxes of old film negatives to a local photo lab to have them professionally scanned. They’re mostly family photos from the 80s and 90s that belonged to my paren...

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New Jersey: Apartment lease ended, landlord "not offering lease renewal". Need guidance.

Location: New Jersey Hello all, at the end of July I had posted regarding my apartment lease situation, but got little response: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1v6lgzv/new_jersey_apa...

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Aging Grandma unable to return home due to roommate

Location: Oklahoma Needing help. My grandma is being placed on hospice after a recent decline in health. She’s lived on her own and has expressed her wishes to return home to die in peace. However,...

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My recent incident

Hello, All Location: Iowa. While on a run recently, I was struck by a vehicle while running through a crosswalk. A few important things The vehicle had a stop sign. The vehicle was around 10 MPH...

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boss only paid me for my hours worked but not for my commissions + bonuses, says it’s discretionary so he doesn’t have to pay me, is that true?? pls help

Location: Los Angeles, California Hello everybody, I hope you are doing well ????. I was recently fired from a State Farm insurance agency. Long story short, I took a trip that my boss had previous...

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[Landlord-US-NY] Tenant demanding a $20k buyout

Location: New York Background: The Purchase: Closed on a two-family home in Brooklyn, NY, earlier this month. I currently live in one of the units. The Decision: There is a downstairs tenant of 4 ...

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Can My Brother And A Relative Be Reported To The US Embassy For Forging Documents In A Legal Dispute Overseas? Can They Get In Trouble In The US?

Location: California. My dad, my brother, my relative and I are permanent residents of California. We are all US citizens. My 90 year old dad inherited two houses and a lot of land overseas. It is...

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Advise on discrimination

Location: Minnesota, USA I work in IT for a small Minnesota company. I joined last year, am Indian, the only Indian employee at the company, and am on temporary U.S. work authorization. Facts: I a...

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Abusive ex is ramping up stalking and the whole house fears for their life - what can we do?

Hello! Im completely new to reddit so sorry if this post is weird but I’m in a bit of a situation and could use some advice.. Long story short back in 2018 my sister met a man in Toronto, Canada an...

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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 ...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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[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 ...

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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...

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