I just got married on Saturday, May 7th. We had our reception hall reserved from 6 PM to 1 AM, however we were “kicked out” at 11:30 due to 2 of our guests receiving injuries and the ambulance being called. That is just the start of our concerns, we paid for a premium bar, which was not given to us until after 2 hours of the dinner being started because my husband then realized we were not being served what we asked for. Our dinner was also changed, being we were served roast beef compared to steak, mostaccioli was pasta with diced tomatoes thrown atop, roasted chicken was not cooked thoroughly (one guest had to send chicken back because it was bleeding), we had horrible service at the head table and guests tables. I, the bride, waited 20 minutes for a sprite and then my husband had to fetch my white russian for me because our wait staff never came to check on us, to which he was told we didn’t have it available. We were not informed that the chef we did two taste tests with quit before our reception. The lights were kept on the entire time of the night, although we asked numerous time for them to be dimmed. Not a particularly big deal, but I was supposed to have navy blue napkins, instead we had white. All in all, we cancelled the check out of disgust and disappointment of services not being rendered to contract. Do we have to contact the venue? Or are we in the right and we can wait until they contact us? They already have 1/3 of the negotiated price, as was the deposit request. Are there any legal ramifications for what we’ve done?

My husband had (surprise) divorce papers served on me. He became combative, hollering/cursing, etc. I was terrified and called the Sheriff. He left for the night but returned the next day with his two adult daughters (ages 36 and 55); the young one is very hostile towards me & fuels the already toxic frightening environment as pay-back for calling the Sheriff on him. It was 3 against 1, so out of fear, I left home and got a hotel rm. I filed for a protective order and the hearing was tomorrow, but I just learned his atty got my protective order hearing postponed for 2 more weeks. I cannot afford to live in a hotel for another 2 weeks and I’m forced to return home (or be homeless). Considering the protective order paperwork lists my fear of him and his daughters and the hostile environment his daughters create, can I legally ask him to remove his daughters from our home during the divorce period, considering I feel threatened and, if he doesn’t, can I call the Sheriff to escort them from the home? Also, he has allowed the 36 yr old to have my room, sleep in my bed, use my bathroom and she helps herself going through my stuff.

I have been falsely accused of Violence against my ex gf. 3 weeks prior to the incident she was baker acted for trying to cut herself up and kill herself. I have had to restrain her multiple times when she was seriously cutting herself and twice when she has attacked me before. I always communicated with her parents when this happened and it was her parents who baker acted her when I called them and told them she was was being a danger to herself and trying to jump out of the car.
The morning the attack allegedly happened she had been up all night the night before with her best friend, who is also our room mate, popping her (prescribed) xanax and adderol. When I got up around 730-8am and decided to play video games instead of hanging out with them she had another one of her freak outs where she accused me of not caring/cheating/lying to her. She was always jealous and accusing me of stuff even though I spent all my time at home with her. She made me keep a dead friends picture and obituary in my closet and not on my wall where I had always kept it because I had been intimate once with the girl who had died. Anyway she was yelling at me and I was fed up with the accusations and things so I dumped her. I wasn’t very nice about it and said it was because she was always being childish and a brat. She went livid and attacked me. I reacted instinctively since I have had to do it before. I blocked her first swing and grabbed her arm as she swung again and I held it as I swung behind her and then I wrapped both my arms around her arms to hold them at her side. I held her from behind like that kneeling on the ground as I had done before because she always cooled off and quit fighting when I did and then we could talk rationally. I let her go and she immediately started to yell and scream at me again. I called out for our room mate to come get her and told her to go away and said she needed to go with her friend.
Later that day I texted her and asked her if she was safe because she always threatened suicide when we talked about breaking up before. She said she was safe and we even had an almost civil conversation about my moving out and working things out as friends. The next day she text me that I have one week to move out or she was calling the police and saying I assaulted her. I thought with her history they would see my side of the story so I didn’t take it seriously and said I would be out in 30 days and sooner if I could. But her and her parents decided to press charges anyone and one of them is a felony! She had bruises on her arm and one on her neck I believe she gave herself (she has beaten herself before too). I never intended to hurt her and I told the police this and even the female officer acted like she believed me and said she thinks her parents are pushing her to do it. However they arrested me! I worked at a middle school so I lost my job, I have a lawyer. The whole thing is very scary, it seems ridiculous they believe my word over hers. I know she has bruises but she has a history of self injury and I have no violent history, I work at a school with kids where I am well loved and respected. It seems like a surreal nightmare. Even her best friend who was there doesn’t believe her and thinks she likely attacked me because she has seen her do it in the past, but she didn’t see anything that day. All she heard my ex say was that she threw a book at me. I have a lawyer but I am still worried. Any advice on how to go about this, what kind of evidence I should try to get.
Some differences in her story and the truth are…
-She claims it happened in the afternoon when in fact it happened early in the morning. Both Her room mate and my best friend who were there that morning will testify to this.
- She is claiming I attacked her outright. Neither my friend nor hers saw the incident but they are both willing to testify that they have seen her attack me before and think that its more likely she attacked me than otherwise.
- She has had her friends call me and harass me and make fun of me, I can’t prove it but I can prove that she knows the person whose phone was used to call me and I can prove she was at the same party the kid who called me was at. (Once again both our friends were there when this happened but they didn’t see her incite the call).

I am out on bond under the conditions I don’t return to my old apartment or contact her in anyway. I have no desire too. I am hurt she would do this to me but I broke up with her and am happy about it because the constant worry of her hurting herself and her constant attacks on me verbally were extremely stressful and depressing.

I just feel like because I am the man and bigger than her (not by much I am skinny I weigh a whole 130, she weighs maybe 105-110) that everyone just believes her especially because of the bruises. She was fighting against me when I held her I admit I may have caused those bruises accidentally (I think the neck bruise is self created) but only because she was fighting me wildly when I tried to hold her, I never intended to hurt her or do anything but calm the situation down.

I feel like the victim of some horrible joke but I can’t get out and everyone who doesn’t know me see’s me as a monster. Not a single person I know even believes I am capable of this. I am facing a felony charge and the end of my career no matter what. I can barely afford my lawyer and I have had to move back in with my parents at the age of 27. If anyone has any advice please help me.

There was a non work party that happened back in December. I am a specialist which is below a Supervisor. A supervisor who was at the party had been drinking, along with myself. We have a previous encounter a few months before this via text messaging. Him asking to come over to my house and for pictures of myself.. nothing was ever filed as I was consentual. At the party we both had been drinking and i had stayed away from him.. towards the end of the night we started dancing.. he started making sexual gestures and touching me and i told him to stop as others at work were around.. he kept trying and i kept trying to tell him to stop.. in the meantime we were having fun and took some funny pictures with a few other people.. these pictures got posted on facebook.. in the meantime, he willfully walked with me to my car and got in my car.. started to do sexual gestures again.. i told him to stop as we were still near work people.. we then started driving back to my house.. we got to my house and again.. he willing came in.. we slept together and then he left my house upset. About 2 weeks later I was called into HR stating that there was a rumor going around and I was the one that started it.. they asked me questions about my car.. what happened at the party.. what happened afterwards.. very detailed conversation.. they then called others who were at the party in and asked them questions.. i found that they told two people that we had slept together.. did not ask what the rumor was.. they also asked to see the pictures on facebook and for text messages that were sent.. they then called me into the office again and asked me if i told anyone.. i said no.. they kept saying are you sure? i said yes.. I didnt say anything.. I then was told that they had to tell my boss.. later on i found out that they also told our director.. i have been put through the ringer on this.. the supervisor got a promotion and i still am in the same position when i have been trying to move positions.. can hr ask for all these details? can they go and tell more than just my boss of what happened without my consent? Can i file sexual harrassment against the supervisor even though it was consentual?

My sister is in a tough situation – she has been involved in an abusive relationship with the father of her child. Recently, they split up (due to him dragging the child down a flight of stairs by his hair) and she was awarded full custody while he gets overnight visits for two nights a week and has to pay her child support. The reasoning of the court for giving him overnight visits was a lack of evidence of abuse due to the fact that my sister did not report the abuse immediately after it happened. They are due back in court in April and I believe he is going to try for partial custody which will in turn, I believe, reduce his child support payments. Money is all this man cares about; he does not care about his son or my sister. There have been a few instances when, after spending the night at his father’s house, my nephew came home with excrement in his underwear and wearing the same clothing as he had the day before. This man does not know how to properly care for a child, nor does my nephew want to go with him ever. Unfortunately, my sister is falling for his recent act that he is trying to change and that he actually cares about her and she will not report this to her lawyer to file a motion. She is defending her abusive ex-boyfriend because she believes that they are going to get back together. My questions is this – do my parents (the grandparents of her child) have any legal rights or options to report this with the courts? Can they possibly request custody of this child, should my sister neglect to inform the court of what is happening? Is there anything at all we can do?

I have a very complex situation and I’d appreciate any help with this. I got pregnant as a teenager by a man who was a lot older than me. Because he could be tried in my state (California) for statutory rape even though it was consensual, he made me believe that if I kept his identity as my daughters father secret, he would help me, versus having to go to jail. Naively I believed this. Thinking that I needed to list a father on the birth certificate I made up a name, (horrible , I know) so that I could have the support I thought he would give me. I did not realize at that age how horrible and stupid that was, or just how hard it would be to change things. He ended up never supported me and in turn, neglected his responsibilities, and went against everything I lied and protected him for in order to just get help for my daughter. I wanted to protect my daughter, so I called an investigator who helped me press charges and started the ball rolling to get child support. I went to Superior Court in Los Angeles,California and was given a Judgement Establishing Parental Relationship and Child Support. This was awarded on default because he failed to show up after being served. On the judgement, both PARENTAL RELATIONSHIP and CHILD SUPPORT are checked. It then continues to list the orders and amount for child support. It does not say, or have an option for there to have been a correction to her birth certificate, at the time, I thought this document was enough to change that, and I was never asked if that needed to be done.
A few months after he was served, he moved to another state in the middle of the night to avoid total responsibility and possible jail time. Long story short, I would like to have my daughters name and father information changed to his information. I feel that it’s only right to have this corrected. How do I go about doing this? As years passed, he had gotten in contact with us, and tried to make amends, however he died shortly after. I am currently receiving Survivors benefits for her from Social Security, but I need to know how I can amend her birth certificate. Do I have to go to court again? And is this something I can do myself? I cannot afford an attorney, and really would like to have this resolved soon. The only reason why I waited so long is because I didn’t know where to start with this, and if it was going to ever require an attorneys help, I would not have been able to afford it. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

We recently moved from Texas to Nebraska. I just received a letter stating we would not be getting our deposit back, plus we’re being charged an extra $430!!!!
We signed a one year lease in 2008. I paid a security deposit equal to one month’s rent and later, after purchasing a dog, paid a pet deposit. After the lease expired, we agreed with landlord to go month-to-month (this lasted up to vacating). Our landlord moved to Mexico over a year ago and I was instructed to deposit payment in her Edward Jones account locally. She raised our rent by $75 about 3 months before we moved out to compensate for impending roof repairs (although all she ever did was show up with a $8 caulk gun and $8 caulk and caulk a few tiles down). I sent her an email on Jan. 9 with our intent to vacate. I stated that the company had offered me a promotion to move out of state to their headquarters. Their offer was beneficial to our family and the move would be fairly fast acting. We actually vacated the premises on Jan. 21st. We travelled to our new city, before moving, to find a place to rent and upon return the heating/ac unit had went out and we had to endure one week and a half with no heat as the landlord was trying to get the best deal for repair. In mid-January landlord contacted me that her friend would be acting as property manager to help facilitate the moveout and re-rent process. She was my go-between as the landlord was out of the country and it was always delayed to communicate with her by email. The prop mgr was the one I had most contact with in the last few days. We cleaned the house thoroughly the night before and the day of the move. We even left cleaning supplies (cans of lysol, wall cleaner, floor cleaner, dobie pads, sponges, etc.) because the movers would not take the hazardous materials, plus I felt it would be a kind gesture. We also left a broom and a good condition bagless vacuum cleaner.
Our dog had some accidents in the boy’s bedroom and I always tried to stay on top of this, but some accidents went unnoticed. Over the course of three years, I rented a rug doctor steamer about 4 or 5 times. There are only two rooms in the house that are carpeted, the rest of entire house is linoleum flooring. The night before we moved out, we spent roughly 3 or 4 hours cleaning carpets, floors, shelves, walls, windows, etc. We also finished up the next day before leaving. I am only detailing this to imply our desire to leave the house in good condition.
The letter we received shows receipts for cleaning supplies, wages for cleaning people, time for the prop mgr to come over and take pics, purchase of light bulbs, covers, etc. Also, the only two fence gates for the yard were broken when we moved in and the porch screen material was damaged by cats that were not kept out due to the broken gates (we’re being charged for those). I have on multiple occasions fixed things myself (just being a good tenant) such as a broken main water line, a broken dishwasher, multiple problems with inside plumbing, etc.
My main question is that Texas Property Code 92.109(b) states
A landlord who fails either to return a security deposit or to provide a written description and itemization of deductions
on or before the 30th day after the date the tenant surrenders
possession is presumed to have acted in bad faith.
We vacated on Jan. 21st. We received the letter with receipts/deductions and wishes that I pay an additional $430, today, Mar. 3rd. The letter is dated Feb. 28th.
Do I have a case to file a lawsuit (according to statute – $100 plus 3 times the security deposit plus reasonable attorneys fees)?

Thank you.

My in-laws were fired from their job 7 months ago. My husband and I agreed to let them stay here a couple of months to save up and get their own place. A couple of months have came and went. I pushed my husband to find out when they were leaving or what their plan was. They said they would be out in January. It is now March and I am at my wits end with them here. They pay NO rent, no bills, and buy a few groceries for themselves. We provide everything. They are recieving their mail here. They even changed their drivers’s license to this address. The situation is causing a major strain in our marriage. He feels obligated to help and I am fed up. He confronted them about their “plan” again and they informed him that they have no money saved and can’t afford anything on $1400 a month. My father in law gets workman’s comp and my mother in law recieves unemployment benefits. I told my husband that she could find a job and that would increase their monthly pay. I am sick to my stomach because they sleep all day like teenagers and don’t help al all around our home. We have 4 kids and I can see the strain and embarrassment it is causing them. I know that my father in law is leaving the house several times a day to smoke illegal drugs. (meth) I am very embarrassed. We worked hard to buy our home and give our children a better life than we had. We live in a very nice neighborhood. There are drs., firefighters, etc that can see his odd behavior. I know that they can see it but are still friendly. My husband works out of town 3 days a week so this is the time my father in law is the worse. Coming in all hours of the night, watching porn in his van, cleaning his van late at night. I am so sickened by the whole thing. It is a nightmare. I tell my husband all the things he does and he has to yell at him like a little kid. He does tell him to knock it off and gets serious with him. My father in law will behave a few days and then when my husband goes back to work….he starts again. I know I have told you alot but the situation here is a nightmare. I fear what type of people may come looking for him. I want to get them out of my house. Can I legally do this? Also what if I want to do it and my husband does not? Both names on title of house but all the bills are in my name. I am not a monster but this is not a happy home at the moment. They have been here 7months and I want to make them leave by April15th. I no longer want to help people who don’t even try to help themselves.

I have an oddly unique situation.
My husband and I were married July 28th, 2010. On or about October 25th of the same year, he left in the middle of the night during an argument. It was only verbal, no domestic violence and no police were involved. I was unable to contact him for 3 days. He took my debit card to the joint account we had with him, and essentially left me with nothing. I stayed with a friend for a few days. This occured in Adrian, MI where we were living at the time, though I will add that we were married in Lewiston, ME. He gave me no money, and I really did not at the time posess the means to support myself. When, after a 72 hour period, he did contact me, he said he would be filing for divorce. I agreed that I would sign the papers uncontested, and on November 7th, I flew back to New Hampshire where I had resided previously before we were married. I flew back on an emergency flight so that I could move in with my mother. We have spoken once since I moved back, he said he was filing papers, as of yet he has not. I have since stabilized myself and have a new life that I wish to continue without this burden. Though I do believe that he owes me something for the situation, I also know that filing for alimony or trying to take anything from him would make the proceedings longer. He recently was reported and investigated for unemployment insurance fraud, the outcome of said investigation I do not know. I would like to know what I need to do to get the uncontested divorce going, and since I live nowhere near where we resided, I really am lost. I would also be curious to know if and what I may be able to gain from him, because I do believe that I am owed something, as he was the sole provider for us and left me with nothing, but first and foremost I really just want this to be over with. If an uncontested divorce is the way to go, then I am willing to let personal gain go, especially as I am very sure that financially I am far better off than he is. I would also like to add that I am 19 years old, and am just looking to get on with my life, because there is so much left to live. I will also add that we are both Army National Guard on drilling status, he is an E-5 (SGT), and I am an E-2 (PVT), and Im also concerned about what he may be able to do to my career.
Regards.