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Employer misclassifying seasonal employees as a scam

This is in Connecticut. Would i be denied unemployment benefits if i refuse to be misclassified as 1099 for a seasonal layoff? Common sense tells me no since i technically dont work for the company...

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Got robbed while living abroad

So I'm living in Panama for just 2 months right now and I need some advice after what just happened. A kid who I thought was a friend asked to use my bathroom while helping me fix my surfboard. Of ...

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My name was fraudulently used on a Docusign contract and now I have collections coming after me

Hello - I received notification from a collections company that I owe an excess of $8500 for services rendered in relation to an old LLC of mine. They provided a copy of the contract that included ...

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$50 counterfeit bill. Any reason to actually be concerned?

Yesterday my landlord called me up. I rent a room and pay bi monthly so this happened just a few days ago. Several of us rent rooms here and as normal I dropped an envelope with cash in the drop bo...

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Filing for an order of protection in NYC family court - do I need an attorney?

Throwaway for anonymity. I filed for an order of protection (in family court against a former intimate partner) in July. The referee granted it based on my statements (I had a police report about h...

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Contractor bid going up after closing our mortgage

My husband and I are currently in the process of building a manufactured home on land we were given from his family. However, every step has been an absolute nightmare. We are FINALLY closed on th...

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Can a company send me unsolicited items them force me to pay them when I don't send it back?

Hello, For Christmas last year I signed up my wife (at her request) for this afghan of the month club thing, where they send you a kit to knit part of an afghan every month. They were having a spec...

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My partners car was stolen last night. Our complex is supposed to be a secure gated community but both gates are broken and left open 24/7

Hi all last night my partner’s car was stolen from the parking lot of my apartment complex. The gates are broken and have been broken since before we moved in. We were told when we signed the lease...

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Annulment for adoption

I (mid 20s) recently agreed to be adopted by my step parent. There was an agreement made (that I was for lacked of better words forced to accept and go along with) that if, met my sibling and I agr...

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Am I responsible for letting my daughters father know when there is a fundraiser at school?

background: my daughters father and I were never married. We do not have a custody agreement and we have not been together for 6 years. He recently moved to our state where my daughters ( F9 and F8...

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Is this criminal harassment?

Someone in my town who does not like me investigates my background, when they found nothing they moved onto my family and found something on the record of my spouse. They then went to the court hou...

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Am I allowed to exclude certain 'customers' from my business? [CA]

Cliff notes: We opened gym with adjoining juice/coffee bar, clientele from card/game/comics shop in same center come in and cause disturbances, behave poorly, have hygiene issues, spend no money, s...

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A natural disaster last June hit my place of employment now I’m forced to work outside in the cold for the same rate as everyone else.

So for context, I work for a shipping company that was by a tornado months ago. The building caved in destroying a lot of our machinery and our operation are pretty essential so work eventually had...

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