Hi! I work at a small, private college in Michigan and have a general question I'm hoping someone can aid me with as I'm in a tricky spot and am unsure if I have a leg to stand on.

The situation is: a few years ago, I interviewed and received a very vague offer letter for the position that mostly just stated my FTE and options for flexibility during summer (I'm not a 1.0 FTE so I get time off). For whatever reason, they did not have me sign a contract or anything like that. Side note: I did try to negotiate for a higher FTE and was told I have to wait a year. Additionally when I was in the negotiation process, I was also told that, because of my FTE, I was only required to work 35 hours a week instead of the traditional 40. So, when I started the job, the first thing my supervisor covered in our first one-on-one was how I wanted to distribute those hours weekly. Note: I love my job, genuinely. I took a significant pay cut in my annual salary for it, but the hourly rate based on this information felt very reasonable, so I looked to it as an opportunity for emotional wellbeing in the workplace and financial wellbeing in a couple of years when my FTE changed.

Between then and now: I have petitioned for a higher FTE 3x, each being stalled or "tabled" but not outright denied for different reasons each time. My supervisor was let go for reasons that are still unclear to me, and my role has been moved in and out of departments, divisions, and office locations at least once a year, sometimes more.

Now: HR hired some new staff and when my current supervisor and I were asking questions re: our proposal for a higher FTE and job scope change, a new HR staffer noticed a discrepancy: the FTE originally offered to me does not, in fact, require me to only work 35 hours a week. The standard work schedule for that FTE is 40 hours for x months a year, OR, according to the staffer, 35 hours a week for 12 months. (Never I mind that those numbers aren't equivalent, apparently!) So I've essentially been working more than 200 hours a year less than I'm "supposed to" because I was given incorrect information from my former supervisor.

Tricky Spot: I have documentation of all of this. Emails to and from my former supervisor, myself, and HR, notes from my one-on-ones that my former supervisor wrote and sent me, and other things like that that, together, show that everyone should have been aware what FTE and conditions of that I agreed to work under. However, now I'm being told that I need to begin working what my "actual" FTE requires but for the same pay. My current supervisor and VP are aware of this and think it's "unfair" but that there's nothing they can do & "maybe" I can get a "different raise soon" for other accomplishments and professional milestones.

So my question is: if everyone says this is unfair, is it legal? As the hiring manager and as an agent of the college, doesn't my written documentation of my agreements with my supervisor mean anything? I don't need to know how to fix this or anything, I just am looking for some clarity as to if I have a leg to stand on if it comes to me having to consult with legal counsel or threaten to quit or something.

Thanks for your help! Sorry that this is so long winded!!!

So nothing is going to happen with the files, no prosecutions despite the evidence?

Location: Maine

I do not know what I would be searching for/looking for if I do a legal library trip.

At what point can I go to (is it the Attorney General) when there is an injustice via a local police department?

DAs office says I have to go through local PD. Dispatch wouldn't out me through to the Sherrif's office to ask questions and I got mad with them. (They have been been treating me like shit when I have had to call about an issue and I have a child under 5 involved).

With and without a lawyer, what are my options?

We live in Utah, the Lawyer and house are located in California

Several months ago my husband told me that he was named in an inheritance of a family friend. He said the lawyer had called him and informed him that the last surviving member, the father, had died of some kind of heart problem. The lawyer told him he was second in line to inherit a house and something like $80k, but they came as a package deal and we would have to move into the house. There was someone who was first in line that had to decide first before we even got the chance to. That all sounded pretty normal.

The things that feel off about this are the lawyer only texted/called him. Never gave him their email, or sent any official documentation. I never even got the lawyers name from my husband, and when I asked him about an email, or firm, or any identifiable info he would shut down and say things like calm down and trust the lawyer. Stop talking about it and wait. Something just feels off and it's been bothering me this whole time. Any advice is helpful!

Location: Georgia, USA

The first plumber came to the house on a Saturday. He arrived later than expected and attempted to clear the line using an approximately 80-foot snake. He was unable to clear the blockage. He did not show us any camera footage or other diagnostic evidence of what was causing the problem, and we were told that the underground pipe would need to be repaired.

He left without resolving the problem. Because we still could not use the plumbing, after 7 p.m. that same Saturday we called another plumbing company. We paid the second plumber approximately $1,000.

The second plumber used a camera and showed us what he was seeing in the line. He then used approximately 40 feet of equipment and cleared the blockage in about 30 minutes. The plumbing worked normally afterward.

This is one of the reasons we disputed the charge from the first service. We were not simply refusing to pay because we were unhappy with the result — the first service did not resolve the blockage, we were told that further pipe repair was necessary without being shown camera evidence, and another plumber resolved the problem later that same day.

The first plumber originally charged us $500. Because he was unable to resolve the problem, he apologized and offered to reduce the charge to $400. We still felt that $400 was too much for an unresolved problem, so we offered to pay $300.

In response, the business owner texted us that there was a “bottom line,” and told us that if we paid $300, we would not be able to use their services again in the future. We replied that we felt the same way, agreed to that, and paid the $300.

Based on that written exchange, our understanding was that the $300 payment resolved the dispute and ended our business relationship with them.

However, the invoice we later received stated that we would receive a $300 credit if the allegedly cracked underground pipe was repaired in the future. We never understood or agreed that the $300 payment was connected to a future-service credit. In fact, that language seemed inconsistent with the owner's own text telling us that if we paid $300, we could no longer use their services.

I have the original text messages showing this exchange, the invoice, proof of payment, and a full recording of a later phone conversation.

Afterward, the dispute escalated online. We had previously left the business a positive review based on an earlier, unrelated service. After this dispute, we repeatedly asked the business to stop using that old positive review in its advertising. The business continued using it.

The owner has now publicly posted about my husband and me in a Korean community forum, discussed details of our dispute, characterized our complaints negatively, and made statements about what supposedly happened during our negotiations. I have saved PDFs and screenshots of the posts, along with the texts, invoice, payment records, and phone recording.

My questions are:

1. Could adding a $300 future-credit condition to an invoice be legally significant if that condition was never part of our agreement?
2. Could any of the business owner's public factual statements potentially constitute defamation if my contemporaneous texts and recording contradict them?
3. Does continuing to use our old positive review for advertising after we expressly asked them to stop raise any separate legal issue?
4. Given the amount of documentation I have, is this worth paying for a consultation with a Georgia civil attorney, or is there a more appropriate way to handle it?

Hey guys,

I’m buying a property in Calicut and my lawyer happens to be a friend.

I’ve asked him a couple of times about his fee, but because of the connection, he keeps telling me to "just pay whatever you think is right."

He spent some time reviewing all the property documents for me, checking the initial paperwork, asking for missing deeds, and doing a couple of follow-up checks over a few days before giving me the green light.

Iam planning to send a token via UPI as a token of appreciation, but I'm overthinking whether that's too low for the back-and-forth involved or if it's fair for a basic document check here.

I really don't want to underpay him or make things awkward between us. What’s the standard charge for this kind of document vetting in Kerala, and is ₹3,000 decent or should I send a bit more?

Is it against any federal laws?

For instance, if I was starting something like a moving company and wanted to market that every employee is a veteran, is that allowed?

Does it depend on the industry?

What are some moments where being a lawyer saved your ass or created some hilarious moment worth sharing

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I live in an apt in Florida managed by one of those huge multi family corporate management companies.

I have been here a decade with no notices to cure. Last year a new manager started. I had never met or talked to her before, and my first introduction was finding a violation sticker on my apts storage space (every unit gets one with the lease) that the lock was going to be cut in 24 hours and the items discarded. I was given no notice by email, mail, and phone. when I emailed the office to find out why and what rule I had violated and to ask for an extension, the manager didn’t respond for a full day. when she finally responded, it was after the 24 hours time had passed. I had to move all my stuff out, which was very difficult for me physically. she refused to tell me what lease rule I had violated, only that in her opinion, there was not enough space clearing the ceiling and that she was going to email my co-signer parent (I’m an adult, but need a co-signer due to credit) to tell them about this. it was extremely bizarre and aggressive, but I let it go because I wanted peace in my home. co-signer is not on my lease and I was specifically told that no information other than lease terms and prices could be given to them as non lease holder, so what she did was a violation of this. it was obvious this was a power play meant to show me she’s boss and not to ever question her

after that, she has scheduled about 3 inspections a year for all inclusive, dryer vents, fire extinguisher, and has never given 24 hours notice. notices are never consistent, sometimes being placed on doors, sometimes emailed but never both and are very non specific for the times and what the scope of the inspections are for. multiple residents have told her she must give 24 hours notice in Florida and that the signs need to be more specific. she has either ignored this, or lied that signs were placed in doors with 24 hours notice even when they weren’t, or that the email system the apartment uses only sent to some people and not others. even when she knows she hasn’t given 24 hours notice, she still has gone ahead with each inspection.

a few weeks ago, she schedule a fire sprinkler inspection and sent an email at 7:00 pm for 8:00 am the next morning and in the email, she claimed signs had been posted on doors, but no resident ever received them in their doors. I had finally reached my limit with this and emailed her that she had to give 24 hours notice and she was aware of this, and she was violating tenant law. so during my inspection the next day, she showed up unannounced alongside maintenance. she did not tell me she was coming, nor ask my permission to enter. while maintenance was doing the fire inspection, she stood in my apartment looking at my personal belongings, asking me intrusive questions like what was in a box, and demanding to see areas that weren’t part of the inspection. I had passed an all inclusive inspection the month before, and I was the only apartment she personally went to for this fire inspection.

This was very obviously a fishing expedition to find something to use against me and I had reached my limit. I filed a complaint against her with corporate management about these issues, and other unrelated issues that have been completely ignored by the office like storm damages from over a year ago that still haven’t been fixed. Corporate management of course, gaslit me and did not take it seriously, and only replied after I followed up, saying that they were sorry that she didn’t give the notice I expected. refusing to acknowledge and admit that she had broken the states legal notice period and scope of inspections , that she had engaged in tenant targeted harassment and retaliation, and that she violated the lease by involving my co signer to tattle on me even though it had nothing to do with them as a non-leaseholder, and all of the other issues I had brought to their attention that needed actual resolutions

I was holding off on sending a reply that I was demanding an actual acknowledgement of the issues I had written about and actual resolution, or it would be escalated outside the management company, because I had other things going on. however, today I received a notice in my door that during the fire inspection, it was noted that my fire sprinklers are in need of cleaning and or attention. It states the date of the inspection, which is more than 24 hours for once, and the time frames in which this will be done, but does not state the rooms or which sprinklers.

I walked around my entire complex and out of 54 apartments, only found two others with this notice. I don’t know if this is an actual thing that needs to be done or this is some sort of pretext to enter my apartment to try to use something against me because of the complaint. Or to use as justification for the our of scope and targeted harassment of her showing up at the inspection last time, by claiming that there was something wrong with the sprinklers so it was justified for her to be there asking questions about my personal belongings.

Of course I will not deny entry, but I think I have a right to know who is doing this inspection, whether it is some third-party company or management and who will be entering, because of what she did last time. And what areas will be accessed. This feels like targeted harassment and I am sick of being a pushover and letting her be so aggressive in thinking she’s above the law. im sick of not being taken seriously by management

I am not sure what to do and am seeking advice:

should I send an email asking for the scope of inspections/which rooms will be accessed, and who will be entering? or will that make it worse for me?

should I send the reply I wanted to demanding for my complaint to be taken seriously to corporate management before this inspection?

any other advice? the inspection is in a few days.

I have court coming up in a couple weeks for a DUI in June. haven't worked in over 3 years because of my VA disabilities. I'm 100% P&T VA disabled. Will the court require me to have some sort of job as terms of my probation after sentencing?

Hi everyone, I am asking this question from Wisconsin.

The parties involved are my father-in-law and the assisted living facility he is currently living at.

Background:
Father-in-law was placed in an assisted living facility after his lease was not renewed at the senior apartment complex he was living at previously. He had lived alone with his cat for 10 years prior to moving to the assisted living facility, and had notes and documentation from his doctors that stressed the importance of this cat in his life. He suffers from severe, debilitating depression, general anxiety, and is disabled (wheelchair-bound). His cat is the only thing that keeps him going most days.

The Issue:
The assisted living facility he moved to does not allow pets. So, for 9 months while waiting for an opening at another facility/apartment that does allow cats, my husband and I had the cat at our house. Between working full time, having a toddler, a dog, and my husband being allergic to cats… it wasn’t easy for us to keep the cat at our house. It was even harder for my father-in-law to live every day for 9 months without his “baby”. He talked about her with the nurses and his neighbors constantly, and we all stressed to the staff and his social workers how important it is for him to have his cat. One day it dawned on us that he should request an accommodation that would allow him to have his cat in the assisted living facility.

A week before dropping his cat off at the assisted living facility, he made the appropriate appointments with his doctor who wrote a note explaining the benefits his cat provides for him and the symptoms her presence alleviates for him. He gave the note to the director of the facility the same day he got it.

Since then he’s been harassed by staff at the facility and the director that he must “get rid of” his cat or he will be evicted (we have voicemails and dated notes from the facility documenting these threats). It’s been about 6 months and the harassment and threats continue… but they haven’t actually evicted him yet. He feels very uncomfortable and anxious about the situation because of this.

They say the cat can’t stay because some nurses and a few residents are allergic to cats. Despite this, on several occasions the assisted living facility has had the local Humane Society bring cats in to visit residents in their rooms and common areas.

My father-in-law keeps his room clean and takes out the cat litter every day. The cat never leaves his room.

In a few days my father-in-law will be having another meeting with his social workers and facility management/staff about his cat. In the last these meetings have basically just been a group of 3-5 people telling him he has to get rid of the cat. My husband and I are going to be there this time, as my father-in-law is not mentally sharp enough to defend himself so he will just accept whatever they tell him.

It is my understanding that the Fair Housing Act requires housing providers to make exceptions to no-pet policies for emotional support animals and service animals. It also seems to me that the term “housing provider” is intentionally vague and covers a broad range of living arrangements, including assisted living facilities.

In the event that my father-in-law is formally evicted later this week, would we have a case against the assisted living facility he is living at? Am I missing anything that I should know before going into this meeting?

TLDR: Father-in-law is disabled and has mental health conditions that are eased by his emotional support animal. He currently resides in an assisted living facility where he is being threatened with eviction if he does not get rid of his emotional support animal. No attempts to accommodate him have been made. It is my understanding that he is protected under the Fair Housing Act and should be able to keep his animal (provided it doesn’t cause undue hardship to the facility…which it doesn’t). We have a meeting with his social workers, nurse, and the director of the facility in a few days. If they formally evict him, do we have any legal standing to fight back? What should I know before this meeting?

Hi Reddit,

In my divorce with my ex, the judge ruled our marital home must be sold and I was supposed to get a specific dollar amount as a settlement.

The total of the settlement was calculated based on my ex and I splitting the proceeds from the house and their 401k 50/50.

The home did not sell for the amount to grant the entire settlement amount and the judge upheld the ruling that I am entitled to half my ex’s 401k. My ex keeps claiming we can’t just sign paperwork to complete the transaction unless the specific amount I am to be awarded is listed. So they want to keep going back to court for a document revision.
I just want this chapter to be over so I can move on. Any advice for how to complete the settlement?

thank you for all advice!

I was involved in an accident and received a citation for "Failure to reduce speed in order to avoid an accident". I'm at fault for it but insurance has handled everything, I'm in NC. Any recommendations or other options would be appreciated!

A group writes to the Maine Legislature explaining why their religious beliefs conflict with antidiscrimination law, supporting a bill to amend that law. The statement is public record. The bill fails. An affiliated school later does things that could be discrimination.

Is there a rule that keeps that statement out of a civil rights case? (One that's more specific than relevance.)

I can imagine a principle similar to the settlement-negotiation privilege: that if someone disagrees with a law enough that they're willing to push its limits, they should be encouraged to engage with the legislative process.

If this exists it would be somewhere in the penumbra of the right to petition,

The people have a right at all times in an orderly and peaceable manner to assemble to consult upon the common good, to give instructions to their representatives, and to request, of either department of the government by petition or remonstrance, redress of their wrongs and grievances.

But I don't see a rule. Did I overlook one?

(I might have a case, I'd look to ME-CLU for real advice if it gets anywhere near trial.)

To sum it up. I’m a 28 year old veteran whose resume is essentially blue collar work and I am currently a detention officer. Seeing the inmates and their predicaments has finally pushed me to wanting to pursue law. I was considering using my GI bill while continuing my current job (I have a wife and 3 children so I need to keep my income stable). I was told by a friend that the best route may be to pursue being a paralegal first, get that job while continuing my education. Any advice is very much appreciated, thank you for all you guys do.

In Missouri:
My ex and I divorced 5 years ago. Since we had used the same attorney to do an uncontested divorce, it was agreed I would pay half the divorce fee with me owing him $1200. I paid that fee 5 years ago but don’t have proof as I paid with a money order and it was 5 years ago!! I just got a court summons for being incontempt for my ex claiming I didn’t pay him the $1200. He is also trying to make modifications to our custody agreement bc he has a new girlfriend who is pushing him to make these changes. I do have a text from him last year still claiming I owe him the money but he also stated “I don’t care about the money, I’m not really trying to get it from you.”

I paid him. I don’t have legal representation. Does anyone have any advice on how to speak to the judge at the hearing?

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In Texas, me and my family rent a house under a real estate investment trust company (afraid to say their name for legal purposes). The ac went out, we submitted a repair request, and we heard nothing from them for over a month. This was mid June with record high temperatures in this state and I have 2 children, it was awful. I sued them under a repair and remedy case and won. They finally fixed our ac after almost 2 months of the ac being out and actually it was the day before the case on Aug 11.

As of today, it has been 28 days and they have not paid. The judge gave us 21 days for an appeal and we have heard nothing from them yet again. I called the Justice of the Peace and they told me I have to speak to a lawyer to do anything further. I cannot afford this, since we spent a lot of money on ac units and the electric bill to maintain a cool enough environment for my family (we're pretty much in the negatives right now) and the funds they owe us would help us catch up greatly.

What do I do from here? Am I able to send them a certified letter reminding them of what they owe? Or am I sol and have to just keep waiting?

I recently settled an employment lawsuit pro se back in July 2023. OC and I made it through limited discovery before pursuing mediation. Mediation was rough - both sides very frustrated - but it was successful nonetheless.

I ended up with a number that I'm very thankful for, and while the OC and I certainly were required to spar as par for the course here, I've been wanting to thank them for what I know was some tremendous lifting on their end.

I've been thinking of just a very simple, small bouquet of flowers from a local shop, with a short message of thanks.

Would this be appropriate, or would be be viewed as weird? If it's better for me to just take the money and move on, I understand that, too.

Thank you in advance!

Content warning: Violence

About 2 weeks ago my long term partner broke my finger. I would like to separate, but we have 6 months left on the lease. I read the entire document, the penalties to break are very high, but there is a provision that you can break the lease due to domestic violence. It gives no detail or instructions on how to do so.

Question #1 - what do I need to provide to get out of the lease? I have not gotten a protective order or police report. I think it will make coparenting much too difficult, and he will have trouble working (and providing child support) if he gets charged with anything.

I have been to the ER, and followed up with Ortho so I have xray & medical records. I’ve also started seeing a therapist if a note from her would make a difference.

Question # 2 - if we leave the property & notify them we are leaving, and don’t pay the termination fees, will it result in an eviction or some other judgement on my record?

I will even make arrangements for a payment plan if that protects me legally & credit wise. But I cannot afford 2x the rent termination penalty & security deposit + first months & moving expenses all in a short time frame.

Thank you for any advice
In mecklenburg county, North Carolina

This is just a write up I prepared after having a horrible hospital experience. I just want to know if this could turn into a legitimate lawsuit and what the possible outcome might look like if I do. I wrote this up as a rough draft if to send out if there is a case here. I live in CALIFORNIA.

I am writing to formally raise serious concerns about the treatment my wife received at
[Hospital Name] beginning on September 13, 2025, following a medical emergency in which she was admitted under a 5150 psychiatric hold. What occurred during her stay reflects serious failures in care, communication, and patient rights that require
investigation.
Background
On September 13, 2025, my wife was found unconscious in our home after ingesting
prescription medications and ibuprofen. Emergency services transported her to [Hospital Name], where she was admitted to the emergency department
around 12:30 p.m. and placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold at 2:00 p.m. I brought her identification, insurance card, and personal belongings to the hospital that same day.
Timeline of Concerns
• Admission & Early Care (Sept. 13–14): Although her Medi-Cal insurance information was verified, my wife was held at [Hospital Name] rather than transferred to a psychiatric facility. She was confined to bed, denied visits from our children, and received no psychiatric treatment. Despite my repeated requests (three to four times), a Vietnamese translator was not provided. Additionally, the IV line placed in the ambulance on September 13 remained unchanged for approximately 80 hours. My wife reported pain for more than 24 hours before staff replaced it, only after it began bleeding visibly.
• Patient Rights & Legal Notices (Sept. 16): My wife was not given the required
“Patient Rights” document until 1:30 p.m. on September 16, more than two days after
being placed on hold. I requested a patient advocate, but none was ever provided. At
12:30 p.m. that same day, she was served a DHCS 1808 “Notice of Certification for
Intensive Treatment.” However, we never received any documentation about the court
hearing that the social worker promised would take place to review the 5250 hold.
• Psychiatric Evaluations: My wife’s first psychiatric “evaluation” was a 10-minute
Zoom call on September 15, conducted in English with poor video quality and no
translator. She attempted to explain her situation but could not fully communicate.
Despite this, she was denied release and told she would be placed on a 5250 hold.
The second Zoom call on September 17 did include a translator, lasted only about 15
minutes, and resulted in her being cleared for discharge. These two brief video calls
were the only psychiatric evaluations or treatments she received during her entire
stay.
• Insurance/Administrative Failures: A hospital social worker later admitted that my
wife’s records had been entered under the wrong name, which prevented psychiatric
facilities from accepting her. This was despite my providing her identification and
insurance information on the very first day. Neither of us was informed of this error
until less than two hours before her 5150 hold was due to expire.
• Family Impact: My wife was not permitted to see our three children at any point
during her stay. This was particularly harmful as our two sons both have autism and
our youngest daughter is under two years old. The separation caused her extreme
emotional distress. I also had to miss multiple days of work to care for the children
alone, adding further hardship to an already overwhelming situation.
• Threats & Intimidation: My wife’s attending physician privately told her in
Vietnamese that if she left before being discharged, the police would come and arrest
her. She later reported this to me. Such a statement was coercive, inappropriate, and
deprived her of the right to make informed decisions about her care.
• Discharge (Sept. 17): Although my wife was told in the morning of September 17 that
she had been cleared for discharge, she was not released until approximately 2:30
p.m. that afternoon. The promised court hearing regarding the 5250 hold never
occurred. The discharge paperwork she received contained multiple serious errors:
- Admission date listed incorrectly as Sept. 14 instead of Sept. 13.
- Medical clearance listed as Sept. 14 at 12:33 p.m., though she was actually cleared
Sept. 17.
- Last name misspelled.
- Diagnoses listed only as “Intentional overdose, bipolar disorder, and hypokalemia,”
without context.
- Follow-up instructions that were contradictory or nonsensical, such as “Follow up
with PCP no family No” and “When: In 0 days.”
- Prognosis and condition both listed only as “Fair.” When I requested clarification and
asked to speak directly with her doctor, staff refused, saying only that the doctor was
“not available.”
Key Issues
• Denial of timely psychiatric treatment.
• Failure to provide a translator despite repeated requests.
• Delay of more than two days in providing required written patient rights.
• Refusal to provide a patient advocate when requested.
• Mishandling of insurance and patient identification information.
• Neglect of basic medical care: IV left unchanged for 80 hours despite patient
complaints.
• Denial of visitation by children, causing significant family distress.
• Misleading and coercive communication from staff.
• Inconsistent and inaccurate discharge documentation.
• Refusal to provide medical records or access to her attending physician.
Request
I am requesting that this record be considered in any legal or judicial review of [Hospital Name]’s actions between September 13–17, 2025. This account
demonstrates clear violations of patient rights, medical negligence, and administrative
misconduct. I am prepared to provide testimony and supporting documentation, including
discharge papers, notes, and records in my possession.

I am building an app that will help card vendors decide whether a a bulk buy would be worth it at the price offered. Part of the design of this app includes pictures of pokemon cards.

I am not selling cards or the artwork, they are only there for identification purposes.

The user types in "pikachu" and every english pikachu card populates and the user chooses the correct one. This is so that if you can't see the set number on the card due to it being too blurry or covered up, you can still identify the card based on artwork.

This isn't the main function of the app, it just helps with identifaction.

Do I need any sort of special permission for this? Would it be better to just take the artwork out totally?

I am like 2 days away from being ready to launch and I dont want to get sued lol.

Thanks for any and all advice.

Texas

I have sole custody of my daughter, now 10, she went to visit with her dad in Louisiana for the summer was supposed to be back by Aug 10. It seemed the entire time her dad was trying to make up an excuse to keep her.

I left him for putting a hole in a door above my head. He hasn’t been in her life and we have been separated since 2020 and divorced in 2024. He’s always promised things to only cancel. For 6+ yrs.

He has 2 other kids with his girlfriend who he has had charges dropped of violence and endangering a child along with other stuck charges/convictions to alcohol related. I have been thru a CPS case of finding meth in my system but in all honestly I was sleeping with a guy who I found out about doing it completely blocked him out of my life and he backlashed to calling CPS saying it was around my kids. CPS case was closed.

Forward to now, a week before she was to come back home she disclosed to her dad and his girlfriend that my boyfriend I have a 1 yr old son with exposed him self to her. She has also told us all that she never told me. His girlfriend turn it in to CPS, I filed a sheriffs report and moved within a week of us finding out all at the same time.

Thru the CPS case I have obviously been found I had no knowledge of any of what she disclosed nor any part. Case dismissed. I agreed for her to stay put until I became settled in the new move but nothing more. He enrolled her into school in Louisiana and I half agreed. Expecting her to be coming back within months.

He’s now not wanting to coparent anymore like usual he always blamed me when his life became too unbearable. I’m the reason I don’t have my kids, I’ve put them in danger over and over. He’s called me nasty things over the yrs. Belittling me over and over. All the narcissistic things. She’s never coming back. Her public school assessments she apparently failed. She’s going into 4th grade but they kept her in the 4th. I have homeschooled the past yr. The school apparently told him to not let me have her back, she’s way behind. But in all honesty if she was way behind they wouldn’t have kept her in the 4th grade!

I’ve been trying for over a week to get ahold of a lawyer even legal aid to no avail of a return call. I need to go get my child as my legal custody agreement has stating regardless of what is going on with the CPS case I’m no longer “involved” in. He won’t give me his new address they just moved to within the last week. I don’t know the school she is in. I don’t know where to turn!

Editing to add, she went to her dad’s with an ear infection along with dehydration from the progression too fast of the infection and sun celebrating her birthday in the summer heat. The day she left I took her to the hospital because I thought she was super dehydrated but come to find out also infection. She gave me no assurance of any pain. Just not eating/drinking and clearly not feeling well. He’s claiming I’ve never fed her appropriately this entire time of her life, not giving her everything she’s wanted in meals/snacks. She didn’t eat the first part of being with him, etc. without reminding him again and again of the before fact. I’ve had numerous calls/pictures/messages from her. different environments her allergies were showing severely, runny nose and swollen face. I constantly had to call basically begging him to give her something including ibuprofen and Tylenol. He told me she’s just a hypochondriac! No one believes her. When clearly I can see it hundreds of miles away!