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Downstairs neighbor smokes all day inside their unit

Location: California I live in an upstairs unit in an apartment complex in N. California. The people beneath me smoke cigarettes all day and my apartment reeks strongly of cigarettes. There is alw...

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HIPAA question

Location: Connecticut A month ago, I was taken to the emergency room because of concerns that I was drugged at a party. My family usually uses the hospital my sister works in as it is one of the be...

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Small claims court with someone who is out-of-state

Location: Jefferson Country, Colorado I lived in Colorado for a year and have moved back to my home state, New Jersey, which is on the other side of the country. I have not received back my securit...

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Could my friend go to jail for this? HIPAA Violation.

Location: Pennsylvania, USA My friend is a nurse and a new mom. Her boyfriend (who she has a PFA - Protection From Abuse order against at the moment) is physically abusive. She recently pressed cha...

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I am not a landlord and never want to be, but I’m apparently getting fined for not renewing a rental license that I never asked for or possessed.

Location: Pennsylvania I am a first time homeowner, I purchased my house in June 2024. The previous owner was a landlord and had a license to rent the house out. I purchased it as my primary reside...

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Is this a breach of HIPAA/Patient Privacy Rules?

location: NC, USA Hi all, just hoping for a quick sanity check over something that I recently noticed with respect to my psychiatrist. Recently I noticed that my psychiatrist's office had sent out ...

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Escrow Nightmare

Location: SoCal My husband and I need advice and outside perspectives on a real estate nightmare we’ve been stuck in for months. We’re in escrow on a $2m flipped home in Southern California, and th...

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My employer informed me, two weeks later, that I and the others in our shift don’t qualify for a shift differential despite recruiting us by telling us that would be our pay

Location: Texas, USA In August, I received a call from a recruiter at my current company. I was offered a position working either a morning shift with base pay or an evening shift with a shift diff...

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Me and my sister got kicked out and don’t know how to retrieve our belongings

I am a 17 year old male and my sister is 16. We got kicked out because I held my mom back from attacking my sister and yes it was attacking, not discipline. I ended up calling the cops because she ...

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Tenant retrieving possessions after eviction

Location: California Tenant is claiming he wants his possessions but is making no effort to attempt to get them. He told my lawyer after court he can’t afford to move anything, has no forwarding ad...

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Started/run small business with husband; everything in his name; questioning my role/ownership

Location: New York, USA. Hi all. My husband and I currently run a small business together. There is a lot of nuance to the situation, but basically we created this business together, four years ag...

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My wife and I might need to file for custody of her 13 year old brother, but we don't know where to even begin.

Hello, this is my first time posting. Location: Lubbock, Texas. We've been placed in a very weird and unfortunate predicament. Her 13 year old brother is in our care after a really weird set of cir...

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A Car I Haven't Owned In Years Caused Property Damage, and now I'm being sued

Location: Minnesota Firstly, I've already started reaching out to lawyers. I'm mainly posting here because I'm scared out of my mind and want to know roughly what to expect. A few months ago, I rec...

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Send a letter to describing the outcomes of their decision

Location: Massachusetts After my divorce, my ex and I had 50/50 shared custody of our child. Very soon after moving out of the house, her new partner moved in with her. About 4 years after our divo...

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Child custody / visitation

Location: California . Hello all, recently I found out my daughters father has acquired 4 duis In the last year, I only recently found out because I was doing some investigating. I’m horrified, I h...

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Interviewing with a company who hired my former boss. She is still under non-solicitation.

Location: Kansas, USA TL|DR how do I avoid having problems with a former boss's non-solicitation and non-compete when I leave my company to go work for her again. Let's call my company "ACME", my b...

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Getting clocked out without being told by my manager.

Location: California I work at a retail/grocery store in which I am a keyholder. In January I began to notice I was being clocked out by my manager, not by me. I thought it was weird so I wrote it ...

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Credit card debt,Wife died, house in both names. No joint accounts, NEW YORK.

I like the title states we are in the state of New York and the wife passed away leaving about $60,000 in credit card debt with her own bank account. The husband did not have a bank account of his ...

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Urgent: Need Legal Guidance: No Updates After Bail, No Chargesheet Info, Lawyer Unhelpful (Delhi)

Hi everyone, I need some legal guidance regarding my case in Delhi. I was convicted in December 2024 and sent to Jail. I was granted bail after 21 days, on 18th January 2025, by the Delhi Court. Si...

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Domestic violence, Hong Kong. Murder attempt and we share a lease / live together.

Location: Hong Kong Some background. I (European expat male) Have been with my Chinese girlfriend for almost 1 year now. She gradually became more violent and controlling. We signed a lease to mo...

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Sellers improperly disconnected fridge and our new home was flooded

Location: Arkansas Rough Timeline of events to the best of my knowledge: Sunday- final walk through. Sellers were still moving out and fridge was connected Monday 8:00am- realitor swung by to see...

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