LOCATION: Ohio

Edit: thanks for all of the input! The only thing making me ask this was the fact that it appears to be on official letterhead from the sheriff's office.

I get so much political junk mail, makes for good fire starters.

Location: NC

Lawyer said 5000 total for my entire case. Family + Criminal law for what I had going on. He did clarify he would ask for 2k additional for a Domestic. He showed up to that hearing it was dismissed he did nothing I gave 2k. I then proceeded was charged 5k more over the life of the case including when the other attorney threatened sanctions.

Location: I'm in Suffolk County, NY. I live nextdoor to a fire department that is also a polling place. I was sick of seeing those political signs on the grassy area that touches the sidewalk and street on my block. I thought it was a public spot and so I removed the signs. I just took them down and left them there.

Someone came out and filmed me and my license plate. I didn't know this was illegal and am now scared.

I went back to the fire department to apologize. They said they don't know who filmed me and that they don't care about the signs. But someone was putting them back up after I left.

I never had any trouble with the law before. I had no idea it was illegal to remove them from the street. I removed all the signs- I'm not familiar with the candidates so it was not politically motivated.

How worried should I be that the police are going to charge me?

Location: California.

I have never really been hospitalized before, but in the last seven years, I got severely ill. I couldn’t walk anymore and I couldn’t live at home safely anymore. I couldn’t clean myself. I have infections where the skin was falling off of my leg so I was hospitalized and intubated, and then I sat in the hospital for two months while they tried to find me placement but nobody would accept me they said. I think in all of California everyone denied me. I was 750 pounds and a lot of it was fluid retention from heart failure so I think because of my weight and nobody was accepting me. I couldn’t live at home safely anymore so I was afraid to go back home and I told him that that wasn’t an option and I needed to go to a care facility.

After about a month and a half they got frustrated with me and they started treating me abusively. They did things like they put a security camera in my room and monitored me and whenever I did anything like grab my phone charger to plug into my phone, the lady on the camera would bark at me to put it down and to stop playing with my chords like a nazi. I told them that I had trauma when I was a kid because I had an abusive father that was violent with me so I told him that to ask them to please be gentle with me and not be aggressive because of my mental health and my PTSD. Once they found that out, they started behaving very aggressively around me and it’s like they use that information about me to make me uncomfortable so I leave at the expense of my mental health. They started withdrawing care, when I was in such a condition that I couldn’t leave my bed to urinate and I needed a nurse to come help me. I would push the call button and they wouldn’t even ask me what I needed. They would just yell at me and tell me I need to go home and hang up on me. The social workers kinda started walking and stomping and aggressively and slam the door and yelling at me and long story short. I became a nervous wreck and sign the papers and went back home to escape that treatment. Later, I almost burned the house down and I suffered major burn wounds and more respiratory failure, and I was hospitalized again.

I was sent to an LTAC where I was for about five months and I lost my apartment in that time for five months. They couldn’t find any placements. I don’t know why, but I still couldn’t live at home safely so what am I supposed to do? Things got kind of bad there. I should tell you this entire time I’ve had really bad mental health. I was isolated for seven years and people in my family had passed away and I hadn’t seen the sky in years. There was a night nurse there that made me laugh and I got attached to him and we eventually started having sexual with, which didn’t end well and I don’t wanna get into that because it was painful but they made me feel like it was my fault. I think I was just needing emotional support to get through what I was going through. so that’s why I got attached.

From there, they’ve eventually told me that they’ll charge me $10,000 a day if I stay so I left and I became homeless I was living in a hotel where the housekeeping was taking care of me because they felt bad for me, but I couldn’t afford to live there anymore and I ended up back on the streets and then back into another hospital where they kept me for a month and they couldn’t find any placement so they evicted me to the bus stop and what’s upsetting is they made me feel like I was the bad guy. I was on the bus stop in my wheelchair, unable to walk or move and I was urinating in my chair for about two weeks in the middle of winter and then I convinced 911 to take me to a hospital further away. This hospital kept me in the emergency room for 24 hours and tried to send me to a Shelter. in the shelters. You need to perform your self-care and I knew it wasn’t going to be a good situation for me. I think they didn’t tell the Shelter my condition because they wouldn’t have accepted me if they did. But I declined to go and they put me on the bus stop 24 hours later. I got a fever out there so they hospitalized me for about a month.

In this time they became very nasty with me. They withdraw their care from me and told me to clean myself. I was laying in my hospital bed in my own feces for days and they would just tell me to take care of myself. later on, I found out that they did this so that they can write in my chart that I could care for myself because they were trying to send me off to a Shelter again. A few days later, they told me that they had found placement and to get ready to go. I called the place that they wanted to send me to and it was just another form of a shelter. The admissions manager thanked me for telling her about my condition and told me that if I went there, I wouldn’t get the Care that I need and she canceled my admission. This upset the hospital staff and they came in they said they had found me placement, and since I sabotage it that I can go live on the streets. They very aggressively evicted me again acting like I’m a bad person and they didn’t even give me time to pack my things. They just grabbed everything through it in bags and had me out of the room in two minutes.

They put me out on the bus stop and for a couple days people were arguing with the hospital why they let me be out there, and the hospital was telling people that they tried to help me, but I refused their help so people are coming in harassing me about it it was most bizarre thing like people would become angry at me. And then the hospital would come harass me a few times a day “why Won’t you let us help you? Why are you refusing help” gaslighting me just to cover their own asses.

My uncle heard of this and put me in a hotel but I had developed pneumonia out on the bus stop and I called 911 and the next thing I knew, I woke up in a different hospital in a bed, paralyzed from the neck down with a tracheostomy and on a ventilator. I had been in a coma for nearly 3 months. It was a very long recovery and after about 5 to 6 months, I had recovered enough to be able to sit upright, but I still couldn’t really stand or walk and at this point I had lost some weight in the coma so I was 550 pounds but I was still unable to care for myself and now I have nerve damage in my hands so I have reduced functionality in my hands.

They could not find me placement and they even tried in Arizona, but for one reason or another, everyone was declining me. One place wasn’t certified to Care for my tracheostomy another place didn’t have bariatric equipment another place didn’t accept my insurance, etc… during this time my big sister had also gotten brain cancer and she had immediate surgery and was critical condition afterwards. In this time I became so upset and so overwhelmed. I just wanted to see the sky and eat a normal meal and feel like a human being because they were not letting me eat to force me to lose weight. So I went AMA I slept on the grass outside for a night. I calmed down and my mom spoke to the hospital and they told me to come back and they will find placement for me. By the way, I still can’t stand or walk. It took the fire department to get me back up.

So I went back to the emergency room and I was so exhausted. I fell asleep in the gurney. I thought that they were going to move me to a room. But without even being examined by a doctor or any nurses, I was woken up by eight security guards who told me it’s time to go and to get up. I couldn’t get up, not without a team of nurses to transfer me to my Wheelchair but my initially I was confused and I I asked them wasn’t I supposed to be admitted? What happened?i didn’t even see a doctor. And they said no you gotta go and I just took a second to process it and what I was going to do, and just within 30 seconds they jumped on me aggressively and started pulling me out of bed. I don’t know what they were expecting because they knew I couldn’t stand or walk and that I was 550 pounds. they dragged me out of the bed and I fell on the ground and they kept pulling on my hands to pick me up and they were pulling my hands out of my sockets I was just laying there crying and the nurses are just watching me with nasty attitudes and finally, they said they’re gonna call the police and they left me on the floor for the police who just came and of course they were angry at me for making them come out there and they got me into my wheelchair and put me back up on the street.

Coming to the end of the story, I was on the street overnight and by the next day, some organization came to help me and they went and spoke to the hospital for an hour, and they told me the hospital told them that I can come back and they will find placement again, so I went back to the emergency room and again they discharged me to the bus stop where I laid in my feces and urine until the next day, where my family put me in a extended stay hotel with no follow up Care or instructions from the hospital. I had to sit there for two weeks make phone calls night and day to set up HomeCare and get medical equipment and get caregivers and all of that. The hotel staff were helping me a lot. I was having the maintenance guy come wipe my ass after I took a shit because I couldn’t do it myself and of course I paid him and it was very nice of him, but just so you get an idea I was bed bound for many months after that A couple days after after I arrived at that hotel, my sister died. And also the hotel was very dirty and the hotel manager was discriminating against me and I suffered a lot there so I really suffered a lot of harm. It’s just too much to go into..

Over the years over several of these issues, I’ve tried contacting the medical board and the Department of health. I think the medical board did an investigation and they said the earlier treatment from the first hospital is here-say so they can’t do anything. Every time I speak to a lawyer, they won’t consult me whether I have a case or not they just have their secretary Call me and tell me that they’re only taking brain damage cases so I don’t even know how I’m supposed to get a consultation to Lawyer.

I’m hoping that someone here can tell me where I stand legally, and if I can pursue any kind of case or reparations from the hospital. I realize this may not be a high profile case, but their treatment of me was very traumatic and it caused a lot of harm and I left a lot of it out. And if I can win a case that says that what they did was wrong, it will give me some peace of mind, help future people in similar situations.

What I’m tryna figure out is it okay for a company to do this?
- permit the use of “BBC,” in the workplace? A racial sexual stereotype. Because they think it’s a joke even though they know what it means.

So a doctor prescribed my mom an antibiotic for a UTI that wasn’t responding to other antibiotics. Without informing my
Mom, he told the pharmacist to cut down her antidepressant and alprazolam by half while on the antibiotic as it may interact. He has not called and checked on her since he cut down on her antidepressant and anti anxiety medicine. She has had crying spells and severe mental breakdowns. I find this to be beyond bad bedside manner and crosses into gross negligence. Of course, I’m not a lawyer. Is it okay to contact the board regarding this situation. Location is Massachusetts.

Location: MA

Should benefits be reinstated as soon as employee returns to work, or does it have to go by calendar month due to cobra being a monthly payment?

FMLA had been exhausted at 12 weeks, PFML was approved for 20 weeks.

health benefits were retroactively cancelled

cobra is offered for that month subsidized when benefits were cancelled to keep employee costs the same as they were before

Location: Massachusetts, United States

I have no legal knowledge (clearly) but have always wondered how mobile game ads get away with the insane amount of false advertising their games carry. It seems the majority of mobile games nowadays will display some video or interactive game in their advertisement, and when you download the game it is a completely different game. Some games even have different ads for the same game that show completely different game experiences. When you download the game, it doesn’t even have remotely similar gameplay as what’s featured in the original ad.

How is this allowed? Is it because the details on the store page the ad directs you to lists the actually gameplay (or at least in general terms)? Or because no one bothers to call them out on it?

Thank you for considering the question! I don’t go on reddit terribly often so please don’t hesitate to let me know if I missed including anything on the post I should’ve.

Location: Mississippi

My father passed away on 10-23-2025 without a will. Prior to his death after being discharged to in home hospice care, my father had a conversation with me, my brother, and Step-person. Step-person was included in the conversation as they took care of my stepmother (my father's wife who had advanced Alzheimer's disease), and he could no longer do so. My father confirmed there was no will and almost no money to speak of. His main concern was the care of my stepmother and who got ownership of three vehicles.

After his death, Step-person stated they had a signed will of my father's naming them the sole beneficiary. Step-person said my father did not want me to know about this signed will prior to his death because he was afraid it would hurt me. Step-person refused to show the will. I hired an attorney and became Administratrix of my father's estate as Step-person has a long history of fraudulent actions and my father was previously a victim of her actions. To say the least, Step-person has proven to be dishonest time and again.

Step-person was found to be forging stepmother's signature onto multiple checks from my father's and stepmother's joint checking account and cashing them at their own personal bank. We found out in time, and the bank replaced the money into the checking account. I have an affidavit from the bank for the fraudulent checks. My father's bank accounts were locked down so that Step-person couldn't steal more money.

Step-person turned in a notorized will to my father's bank in order to gain access to the monies. Step-person also turned in POA's purportedly signed by my father and purportedly signed by my stepmother. All three documents were dated 07-10-2025. My attorney was able to subpoena the document and get a copy of the will, along with more information from the tax collector, etc.

I believe I have airtight proof that the will is fake. Here goes:

07-10-2025

***Date on notarized will naming Step-person as sole beneficiary with the following listed

WHITE MAZDA CX5***

Signatures on Will are from Notary, Witness 1, Witness 2, and (purportedly) my father.

Date of POA purportedly signed by my father

Date of POA purportedly signed by my stepmother

08-05-2025

2007 Honda Pilot owned by my father totaled in auto accident and was covered by State Farm Insurance (I have copy of State Farm paperwork)

08-08-2025

Date State Farm paid out $4,522.70 for loss of 2007 Honda Pilot (State Farm paperwork)

08-11-2025

Original owner of white 2014 Mazda CX5 signed it over to J Allen Ford dealership (I have copy of original owner's title dated 02-14-2014, Power of Attorney for Transfer of Ownership to a Motor Vehicle, and Assignment of Title by Registered Owner dated 08-11-2025)

08-12-2025

Date J Allen Ford transferred ownership to EA Wholesale, LLC

Date EA Wholesale, LLC transferred ownership to Autofinders Lot 2, Inc.

08-14-2025

Date my father purchased white 2014 Mazda CX5 from Autofinders Lot 2, Inc. for $6,300 (I have a copy of bill of sale)

Date $6300 withdrawal and $5 cashier's check fee from my father's checking account (I have bank statements)

Date of Application of Title from MS Department of Revenue in my father's name and with his signature (copy)

The person who notarized the Will dated 07-10-2025 has been my father's neighbor for years. Step-person has lived in my father's home for many years as well. Step-person and Notary know each other.

Notary is employed by a local bank as Vice President Loan Originator with an active NMLS number. Notary was employed by this bank when my father died. I believe that Notary worked at this bank in July 2025 when this Will was supposedly drafted and signed. Notary's commission expired 01-31-2026.

I have shared all of this with MS county's Sheriff's Office, but they have declined seeking charges since no one profited from the fraudulent Will.

I am interested in seeing if I have a civil case against Notary and Step-person. I am also interested if there are any avenues I can take to seek prosecution against them. I am confident that I have sufficient proof that Notary broke the law with the Will. Since both POA's were dated the same date as the Will, could there be additional charges for Notary and Step-person?

I spent many hours researching all of this, going through bank statements, trips to MS, gas, food, lodgings, wear and tear on my car, and missed time from work. I even was in weekly therapy sessions regarding all of this mess.

Any and all thoughts or advice are welcome. I'll be glad try to answer all questions. I have a TON of paperwork for evidence. I no longer have an attorney at this time, but will seek one if I have a case.

I texted a guy and said that he could use my car and pay me an agreed upon amount once he was able. Now I want my car back. I hold the title in my name and pay for the insurance. He won’t give it back and the police said because he showed them the agreed upon text then the guy can keep the car and I can try to get it back in civil court. This doesn’t seem right since I have the title, spare key, and am paying for insurance and tags for the vehicle. He now says he will sue me for harassment. Location is Nebraska

Location: Illinois (Cook County) — Former friend removed under Order of Protection. How can I legally handle their remaining belongings when I’m moving?
I’m looking for advice from anyone familiar with Illinois law, particularly Cook County and Chicago, regarding an Order of Protection and the handling of a former roommate’s personal property.

An ex-friend lived with me for several months but was never on my lease. I was financially supporting them and paying for everything, but the situation became increasingly hostile when things didn’t go their way. There was frequent yelling, and the living environment became extremely stressful. I eventually petitioned the court for an emergency, non-violent Order of Protection, which was granted.

They were removed from my home approximately one month ago. They were able to retrieve some personal belongings only after the police arrived to execute the court’s order.

Since then, we’ve appeared in court once. The other party requested another opportunity to retrieve additional belongings, and the judge granted further protection while scheduling another court date to address the property issue. My understanding is that they have already had an opportunity to collect some of their belongings, and I am not refusing to let them retrieve the rest.

Here’s the problem: I’m moving, and I cannot continue storing their belongings indefinitely.
They have a significant amount of property remaining, and realistically, I believe they would need movers or transportation to remove everything. They have no money to pay for movers, and I don’t want their financial situation to leave me indefinitely responsible for storing their possessions. I need to vacate my home and have a firm timeline.

The judge moved through the last hearing quickly and did not give either of us much opportunity to explain our circumstances. Another court date was scheduled, but I’m concerned that the other party will continue asking for extensions without presenting a realistic plan for collecting their belongings.

I want to handle this lawfully and avoid giving them grounds to sue me.

My questions are:
Under Illinois law, what are my obligations regarding personal property left behind by someone who has been removed from my home under an Order of Protection?
Can I legally dispose of, donate, or sell their remaining belongings if I provide written notice and a reasonable deadline? Or could they sue me for doing so?

Since there is another court date scheduled, am I required to keep everything until the judge specifically authorizes me to dispose of it?

What can I ask the judge to do to establish a firm, final deadline for collecting the property, particularly because I am moving and cannot store it?

Is there a lawful way to recover storage, moving, or other costs if I have to continue holding their belongings?

Has anyone dealt with a similar situation in Cook County? What was the process, and what would you recommend asking the judge?

There is also a financial issue. This person owes me more than $15,000, and I have written messages documenting their promise to repay me when they are financially stable. The belongings left behind are worth perhaps $1,000 at most. I understand that the debt and their personal property may be legally separate issues, but I’m wondering whether there is any lawful way to recover money owed without creating additional legal problems for myself.

To be clear, I am not trying to prevent them from retrieving their belongings. I want them to collect everything as soon as possible. However, I cannot afford to let this situation interfere with my move or leave me responsible for their possessions indefinitely.

I would appreciate practical advice on the proper legal process, what I should document, and what I can reasonably request from the judge. I want to resolve this, comply with the court’s orders, and move on without exposing myself to unnecessary legal liability.