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Floor is oozing a yellow liquid, slugs everywhere, and a landlord that is ignoring the problem.

housing

I am looking for some advice for my mother who currently lives in Maine. I was stationed overseas and she was telling me how bad her apartment was - there was water leaking by the bucket through her with mold growing on the ceiling. She mentioned it to her landlord and after a couple months nothing happened. She sent a letter and then a month or so later they had a construction crew come in and redo the ceiling which really messed with her because she had to stay in the unit while they did the construction. Meaning there was drywall and particle dust all covering her bed and due to her COPD, it really messed with her. Now there is mold on the floors and a yellow liquid coming up from under them. Here are some pics, [one](https://i.imgur.com/KJ9aajf.jpg), [two](https://i.imgur.com/tyuCvgB.jpg), [three](https://i.imgur.com/Vd0SuRr.jpg), and [four](https://i.imgur.com/K7DEbMA.jpg). She has no idea what it is and is now finding it very hard to breathe in her apartment to the point where she is thinking about sleeping in her car. Those photos are form her living room. She mentioned to them on the phone once and they said they would take care of it, a couple months later she gave them a letter about it and got the same response. That was round the holidays (December) and she still has no word from them. As you can see there are also bugs crawling throughout her unit (slugs). Is there anything that can be done in this scenario and if so, what should her next step be? Should she get a house inspector to look at it, should I try to find her a lawyer in the area, etc? Any thoughts would be highly appreciated. Thank you so much for your time.

Work for free?(Not an internship)

business

A few months ago I interviewed at a local business(restaurant), and they decided they wanted me and some other candidates to come in for a “test run” (after the interview). So for a few hours they had me come in and train, and do some basic cleaning and preparations. I worked for about 2 hours before they sent me home because they apparently didnt like the way I worked(Dont know, dont care why, I did what they told me to do, which wasnt good enough, thats not why I’m here). The point is, I worked for them, and didnt recieve pay. I’m not even sure if it’s illegal, but I’m just curious. Also I live in Florida if that matters. In addition, if it is illegal, is it worth reporting/going to court? It was only 2 hours of work.

Do we need a prenup? Can I DIY it?

family

I am 40M engineer, getting married in a few months. My assets are: * Net Retirement: $750k * Savings: $120k * Crypto: $100k-200k, depending on Elon's mood. * No debt. No house. $5k car value. No kids. My fiance, 37F nonprofit, has the following assets: * Net Retirement: $9k * Savings: $8k * No debt. No house, $10k car value. No kids. We are in Oregon, USA. Questions: * Given our significantly different levels of savings and retirements, would we be advised to get a prenup? * How are retirement and investment gains from pre-marriage assets treated without a prenup? * If so, what would we want that prenup to include? * Given that our finances are fairly simple, is this something I could just DIY on RocketLawyer and get notarized? Thanks!

[MN] What do I need to bring to a child support court hearing?

family

Filed for re-assessment of child support. Mother and I agreed to a certain monthly dollar amount. What do I need to bring to court? Anything? Or do we both show up and say "We agree that I should pay xx amount per month?"

Submitted to r/libraries as well, but need advice on legal correspondence from an inmate

criminal

Sorry if this is long: I work as a reference assistant in a public library. About 3 months ago, my supervisor received a letter in the mail asking for some reference assistance. I am not going to mention what it was for privacy purposes. My supervisor tasked me with finding the information. It seemed innocent enough at the time. About a month later, I receive a response asking for some additional documents as it was for a Master's thesis. No problem I thought. I found some more info and it was sent. Just today I got another letter. This time, the letter was addressed labeling me as an attorney. Both my supervisor and I thought it was funny. He joked that I had gotten a promotion. Until I opened it. Inside was a legal document stating that anyone who works for a court or a prison is committing an illegal act if they read the letter. The beginning of the actual letter stated that he had to send it that way because it contained sensitive information. In the letter, he wanted me to use his social security number and various other personal identification numbers to locate more information for him that could potentially lead to his release from prison. Now I won't lie, during the 2nd letter, I was curious as to who this man was (what did he do to land him in his predicament). At the time, I thought it was awesome that he was doing some good with his time in prison that he was going for his Master's. I also love to research and learn. Obviously, as of the 3rd letter, this was a lie. His crime involved killing of an innocent man. I won't go into details of that here either because the story is crazy enough that it would reveal identities. Let's just say it goes a LOT farther than just killing an innocent man. It was like an episode of Monk. Because of the crime, I no longer feel comfortable aiding the man in his quest. Especially since he lied to me. I mean, what if he really did commit the crime and I am aiding him. On the other hand what if he is innocent? I ended up handing the letter to my supervisor and told him that if I needed to do it I would. However, now I am second guessing that decision. My supervisor said he would review it, and if needed give it to someone else. Was I right in letting him handle this request? Or should I have done my reference responsibility and handled the request myself? I am working toward my MLS now and hope to be a full fledged librarian in the next year or whenever an opening is available. In the meantime I have been doing everything in my power to show that I am capable of doing the job. Did I just screw myself over by not taking the request? Or was I right in my assumption? I have an anxiety disorder and always question my actions lol. I just feel that his request goes too far for a public library Reference Assistant and even too far of a Reference Librarian. Maybe if I worked in a law library, but we don't. I am not sure if law librarians have to follow different regulations than we do, but we are definitely not allowed to give out legal advice which I feel this may fall under. He didn't specifically ask for advice, only for information which I am bound to do.

Landlord might have changed my lease AL

housing

I’ll start to set you off with the fact that I’m not a great grown up. I rarely check my mail due to severe anxiety. Back at the end of October I called my realtor company to check on my lease. I’ve been living in my apartment for three years and wanted to make sure I was month to month. I spoke with the owner and he assured me that I was fine as long as I gave 30 days notice. Mid November I dropped off a 30 days notice because I thought I was moving early December. Unfortunately I was denied that apartment so I spoke with the manager of the company and told her that I had to cancel my 30 days notice. She assured me that was fine and that I could re-file it when I was ready. I reached out in 1 December and dropped off the letter in person. On 2 January I dropped off my keys in person. Last night I received a letter saying that my Lisa still active until May 2018 meaning the leases auto renewed. It turns out that they also sent me one on November 22, but since I don’t check my mail I didn’t see until I looked last night. Of course, while I was cleaning the apartment the other day I threw away my lease because I thought I was through with it. I know my first step is to get a copy of the lease. But is there anything else I can do to hold the company to their verbal agreements about 30 days notice? I know the most of this is my fault. But any advice they could help me get out of five months of paying for an extra apartment that I can’t afford would be fantastic.

Inappropriate accusations at work

employment

I recently began a sales position on California with a small company headed by a woman, and seconded by her husband. The wife handles the brick and motor location, paperwork, inner working etc. The husband manages outside sales, and in turn, me. This is my first sales position, which they are aware of and were prepared to train me etc. Thus far, I have exceeded my monthly goals almost every month, with increased performance as each month passes. I have never received any formal warning, just a few minor requests regarding various procedures etc. Today the wife requested a meeting with me in the parking lot of a diner near the shop. She said she had feedback from my customers that they “don’t know what’s going on between me and the husband” and “they are confused as to why I am always with him and wonder if something is going on”. She said that “he isn’t a very good boss, and probably won’t talk to me about it, but this isn’t working out”. I asked her to clarify if she was firing me and she said “no, I am not mean and I don’t want to fire you, but you should look for a new job”. At no point was my job performance criticized or any actions asked to change. I am expected to continue working like normal until I find a new job etc. I plan on requesting a meeting with both parties present as well as the store manager. What I am trying to figure out is this workplace discrimination? Also, what is the best place to proceed? If I quit I am not eligible for unemployment, but I am struggling to see how I can continue working until I find another position. Any advice on how to proceed would be great! Thanks

[CA, ON] A coworker snuck onto my work desktop (I was logged in but in meeting), archived me entire e-mail history and forwarded it to themself. I caught them, brought it to attention, and now the employee is claiming the messages are harassment. How should I approach this?

employment

Hey everyone, sorry for the possibly bad editing; writing this on a tablet. Well, I'll give a quick rundown of what happened followed by what is now currently happening. At the place I work, while attending a meeting with other employees (10 min duration), I noticed someone had accessed my work desktop. [Note the computers at work are typically shared, everyone has a unique secure login to Windows to keep data and migrate across network]. Specifically, I noticed in my outlook programming an email sent from my address to the employee in question (herein Steve). The email was blank, but as an attachment my entire messaging history (Skype, emails etc) were added as an attachment. These were all interwork emails between me and other employees, always 1 on 1. Steve was never a recipient nor involved in any of the communications that were copied. Upon finding what happened (checked my sent folder in outlook), I naturally brought it to the attention of management. Here's where the story twists; Steve claims because there's messages between me and other employees complaining about Steve's bad work attitude, etc (our opinions), Steve believes he was justified in copying my ENTIRE history (all personal conversations ever) and is now filing a harassment claim. HR is supposedly reviewing the messages (which Steve handily printed after reading, dozens of pages). Here's the thing; I don't think Steve (or even HR) after the fact has ANY right to be rifling through everything (imagine a court case with an officer who broke into someone's house and found something illegal, no warrant, etc. Do I have any options? I feel humiliated, and not to mention paranoid about leaving anything open for potential searching (my phone? My locker?) Since it's some kind of free for all. Thanks everyone To clarify, this was in Ontario, Canada Edit : I get it, my conduct of not enforcing strict computer access when not around is pretty bad. I will change my behaviour there. Edit2: Hi everyone, thanks for all the replies! Sorry it has taken so long to reply, I've been waiting for more details once I got back in to work (Wasn't expecting to hear much during Superbowl weekend). It's now Feb 07, and thus far have not heard a thing from either management or HR. The inclination I got, was that since Steve submitted a formal harassment complaint, management is just trying to sweep the whole situation under the rug. And, hopefully I was clear in post, the only reason Steve submitted a harassment complaint was because he was caught red handed stealing documents off my computer. The harassment claim was meant to deflect blame. I've been told to write up my own complaint, and get the union which I work under involved. I do not want to let this incident slide away. I appreciate everyone offering help, you guys have been wonderful and this whole thing isn't any benefit for ones' anxiety.

How many years of probation can i get for Aggravated Assault with a deadly weapon

criminal

I’m a first time offender and i have an attorney that i’m paying. He said i can get probation most likely for being first offender but i do have a mental illness and we haven’t gone to court yet and such and we haven’t fully discussed about what we’re going to use for my defense. But if i do get probation how many years would i get? I’m 19.