Boyfriend Threatens Mother: Can a Civil Lawsuit Be Filed Against Him?
Can I file a civil lawsuit against my mother’s boyfriend due to emotional & physical abuse he has caused her and her family?
He has threatened to kill her with a scissors ( he was arrested for that). He has threatened to lock her up in a garage in the dead of winter. He has threatened to let the air out of her car tires. He has threatened to rip up her clothes. I can go on with this list. Please advise.
Can I sue the Chicago Board of Education For Abuse of My Children?
Good morning. I appreciate you taking the time to read this. I am writing you because I want to sue the chicago board of education, but don’t have the money to due so. But I will feel so terrible, if the chicago public school system get away with what they have done to my children and I.
In September of 2008, my children were enrolled in a chicago public school for the first time. One in the first grade, and one in kindergarten. It was the worst experience, an experience that I never want to go through again, and do not want any one else to have to go through it. I did not trust this school with my children. My kids were coming home complaining about the things that would go on there. I constantly complained but nothing came out of it.. I even started volunteering at the school, and attending every field trip with my children.
While I was there, I witnessed children being hit by teachers, students confessed to me how they were being beaten by the disciplinarian and staff, and how the principle knew about it na ddid nothing. Fighting the school system takes so much out of you because it’s designed for the wrong doers to get away with things that they shouldn’t be doing. One of my son’s teacher hit him on the head. He was in kindergarten. As soon as I brought up the issue of physical abuse to the principle with my son and other students, I was followed and harrassed by staff members including the principle.
My children were harrassed as well. I was followed in school and out. The children there are beaten. They are verbally and physically abused. I tried to reach out to the ceo of public schools and he has ignored me. My children were frightened to go to school and missed a lot of days out of school because of it. My son was stabbed in the hand with a pencil by another student, and they did not notify me. My son stapled his finger because the teacher was negligent, I was banned from attending field trips with my children, I was banned from voluntering, and kicked out of my son’s classroom because I notified the Chicago board of education about the abuse that was going on at the school.
I have parents who will testify that the same thing happened to them when they reported the abuse as well. Children will stand up and tell you about the abuse. They even sent a security gaurd to follow and harass me one field trip.
How can they get away with this? My children and I didn’t deserve that kind of treatment. I want to sue with every ounce of energy in my body but I don’t have the money. If someone would only take an interest in my case it would mean the world to me because my children and I were severely affected by this. Why should I have to pack up an move to suburbs for my kids to have a quality school and eduaction. They even took my kindergarten son in a room alone and interrogated him. He was frightened and didnt want to go back.
Please help me. And if you cant, can you please refer someone to me who would help me even if I couldnt pay them until we won our case, and I really do believe we have a winning case, if someone would just take an interest. And care about children being abused.
Thank you
Can I Sue A Pet Store Owner For This?
Can I sue a pet store owner for not reimbursing me for the cost of the pet which I had to put down due to multiple aggressive attacks over time which resulted in injuries?
Mother, 85 and Unstable: What Are Our Options With a Will and/or Trust?
My mother is 85 and just re-wrote her will herself. It is really a trust. To me it seems to be full of loopholes and unclear statements. Verbally, she has told all 4 of her children for MANY years that everything is to be divided equally when she dies, so that has been well-understood by all. She doesn’t want to take this to a lawyer because she thinks she can do this herself. She wants to keep it out of probate.
1.) She’s not thinking as clearly as she used to, but she’s not incompetent. Some paranoia. Seems to be very dependent upon a live-in brother, age 55, who takes minimal care of her (cooks, takes out garbage, mows)
2.) Our brother is 55 and living with her…has been living there for 20 years. He doesn’t work, lives an adolescent-type lifestyle of staying up until 3 a.m. and sleeping until noon. It is a complicated relationship, but basically is a co-dependent dysfunctional one in which she needs him so enables him, and he needs her and accepts. She pays him to run her errands, take her to the doctor, clean her house, etc.
3.) Due to instability of this brother and past observations of odd behavioral tendencies, we (the other 3 siblings) really don’t trust him too much.
4.) He has a legal background and has encouraged her to rewrite the will. The role of the executor has been eliminated and each of the 4 children have been given roles. 1 is to be treasurer, 1 handle appraisals, 1 (the live-in) handle ALL LEGAL WORK, 1 keep all the records and keep the peace among the siblings
5.) This has raised several red flags for me. She’s not thinking as clearly. She has not had an impartial lawyer look at it. I think there are a lot of assumptions being made…# 1 that everyone will be trustworthy and honorable in all proceedings.
I also think she has set us up for a big family feud. The live-in brother keeps telling her it is a good document and she doesn’t need a lawyer. I can’t help but to be concerned that he has something up his sleeve. He is and will be the most desperate of the siblings for money. He has high debts, has never held a good job, and I’m afraid he might do something desperate to get more than his fair share of the inheritance.
Question: I don’t want to appear greedy or mailcious, but is there anything we can do?
She has signed it and it is legal now from what she says, but no one has a signed copy but the live-in brother. She is now (after the fact) asking for input. I wanted to suggest a statement saying that any services provided by the live-in brother have been in exchange for room, board and any care he has provided for the past 20 years. My only thought is that he might try to charge her estate for taking care of her for the last 20 years, which he has not. He has only cared for her for about a year or two .
Question: What are our options with a trust?
Walgreens Almost Makes Me Go Blind - Do I Have a Case?
In the first quarter of 2008, I sustained an eye injury that had me rushed to the emergency room, and under an IV. I was given a prescription for eye drops to accelerate the regeneration of flesh on my eye, and I filled it at Walgreens.
About a week after taking my prescription as advised, my eye was still noticably injured. I commenced into seeing my family optometrist to see if he could further diagnose me. He asked what medication I was taking, and I showed him the prescribed bottle. He then informed me that I wasn’t seeing results because my eye was in fact getting worse. I had not been prescibed optic drops, but actually optic drops for the ear. He told me to review who made this error because it could have cost me my eyesight.
After some minor investigating I found walgreens made the mistake, and I confronted them for it. They admitted it was their fault, and simply apologized, not filling my correct prescription in the process. Since this entire experience, I cannot see correctly out of the bottom of my left eye, even with aided vision.
My peers and family have told me to take action numerous times and I have not, though my small eye problem has become a bother. Is it to late to take action?
Will the case win?
Is it worth it?
I still have all of the paperwork, prescription, prescrition box, and written statements from the incident also.
Ex Wife’s Attorney Changes Agreement, Costing us Everything: Can you help?
My husband and I are faced with his ex’s atty who had changed a signed mediated agreement that was done with a mediating atty @ all parties that were involved signed it.
It was suppose to be drawn up verbatim to the settlement agreement who the judge ruled was altered clearly in 4 areas! These unauthorized changes have cost us everything we have.
We went to the Commision but politics prevailed…our story and proof is shocking and documented…please help.
Western Union Ripped Me Off: What Can I Do?
On May 26th of this year, my husband and I used Western Union to transfer $3000. I transferred the money to my husband in Houston, TX. He was going to go there on a business trip, but it was cancelled, so he remained here in Chicago. On May 27th, someone other than my husband picked up the money. After two months of going around with Western Union, including writing letters to the CEO, President of the Americas, they claim they followewd their internal protocol, and sent me a letter stating they paid the money to the correct person.
I’ve offered to obtain and send signed affidavits from my husband’s employer to prove he was here in Chicago when the money was picked up, but Western Union isn’t interested. Today, I received a letter from the director of Curstomer Advocate Dept. that if I still want to dispute the claim, I should quote, “see the back of the ’send money’ form I completed when sending the money.” I have offered to do whatever necessary to prove our case, but nobody at Western Union cares. At this point, I’m wondering if its possible to sue them for a larger amount in order to get their attention, and also find out if a class action lawsuit may be in order.
Please note that I have not spent the last two months trying endlessly to obtain money that doesn’t belong to me. Your help would be very much appreciated, as I believe this to be a theft from someone at the company, and Western Union doesn’t want anybody to know.
Relatives at Burr Oak Cemetary: What are My Rights?
My concern is: I have a father & Uncle that was buried at Burr Oak Cementary and other members.too.
I live out-of-state. I witness on T.V
What are my rights?
Can I Take Legal Action Against Collector?
My exempt funds have been frozen for over 15 days.
I sent proof of exemption to attorney office on 4/1/09 and have called several times only to get the run around.
I became aware of the freeze when I received a notice from my bank. The attorney’s office also gave me a wrong court date to appear (wrong date on court paper) and continued my case to 5/18/09
.I have been sending in monthly payments and have never received any documents pertaining to payment history and/or regarding what I truly owe (they provide different amounts each time on court docs). I have since filed an appearance for 4/21/09 (by suggestion of judge)
My question is: Can I take any legal action against the collector?
