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Two issues here: liability and common sense. "She promised she would help pay me back" makes me wonder whether you had an agreement to share these costs BEFORE you paid the money. If she only made this promise AFTER you paid the money, it is not considered a legally enforceable contract. Also, "help" is a little vague for a court to find that she is responsible for half the money. Also, if you're still living in this place, you will eventually get the benefit of the last month's rent and...
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Workers' compensation is a social insurance system set up about a hundred years ago to allow workers hurt on the job to get paid promptly, regardless of who was at fault, in a less adversarial setting than a courtroom, and under rules more favorable than those that existed in the world of tort law at the time. In return for receiving payments under this system, you give up some rights that you would have in the tort system, including a jury trial and the possibility of large damages....
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If you are a U.S. citizen with questions about Spanish visa requirements, you should probably contact the nearest Spanish consulate.
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The idea behind workers' compensation laws is that instead of making you sue for damages, which would require you to prove that your employer was negligent (careless) and that you weren't also negligent, all employers must carry insurance to compensate injured workers on a no-fault basis, just because accidents do happen. What you can receive through workers' compensation is limited: your medical expenses, a fraction of your lost earnings, and if there is permanent injury, something to...
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The following information is reprinted from the MassLegalHelp.org website, maintained by the Mass. Law Reform Institute (a legal aid resource for lower-income people): ************* Tenants Have New Rights After Foreclosure: Foreclosure does not mean the bank can evict you The Massachusetts Just Cause Eviction Law was passed in August 2010. It protects tenants in bank-owned foreclosed properties. In most cases, a bank cannot evict you or pressure you to leave unless it has “just cause.”...
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If you feel that you had good cause to quit, yes, it is worth appealing. But you really need to get representation for your hearing. To qualify for unemployment after you leave a job, the burden of proof is on you that you reasonably believed the job was affecting your health and that you took reasonable steps to try to preserve your employment. A trained advocate will make sure that you marshall the facts and documents you will need in preparation for the hearing. Also, unemployment...
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Yes, unless you are protected by a union contract, you can be fired for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason. The employer may reasonably figure that it is better to nip this problem in the bud than to have two workers feuding with each other at the expense of job performance. Most bosses don't really want workers to be overly chatty on work time, but would expect you to say hello and observe normal pleasantries toward others. However, a directive to "get along with" the coworker is not...
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Technically, anytime a housing unit develops a defect that violates the State Sanitary Code, the landlord is in breach of the "warranty of habitability, " and the tenant is entitled to rent abatement, representing the reduced value of the premises during the time that the violation exists. But speaking practically, if the landlord is responsive to the need to fix the problem -- an offer to install new carpeting certainly seems like a acting in good faith -- and if you want to stay in the...
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This will depend on whether the tax liability was based on a jointly filed return or not. if he's the only one who owes the taxes, they can't take your money. But if you filed a joint return, it doesn't matter whose economic activity resulted in the tax debt; you are both responsible for it.
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Even though multiple sclerosis is a progressive illness so that your condition has probably worsened, not improved, over time, Social Security is allowed to do a periodic review of anyone's condition to see whether they have gotten better, whether medical treatment has improved so that they can work notwithstanding the condition, etc. If you have been receiving regular medical care, you should be able to show that you are still disabled. If you are concerned about how the review will go,...
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