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Our rental lease ends June 2025 and we want to negotiate an early lease termination with our current landlord.
We want to move as my wife gave birth to multiples and with a toddler already the 2 bedroom is too small and challenging. I‘m afraid that postpartum my wife could be to stressed... View More 
answered on Oct 3, 2024
Dear Manhattan Tenant:
You avoided a colossal error. Since 2019, New York State tenants breaching a lease and leaving an apartment with money owed on a lease without a release from the landlord can sit back and wait for the landlord to rent the apartment again before even confronting the... View More
In desperate need. Husband is ruthless alcoholic changed locks on my house that I built holding all of my belongings hostage he has a lawyer and they're trying to put me in the streets
answered on Oct 3, 2024
You can obtain an attorney in a criminal matter through the public defenders office if you cannot afford one. If you have a domestic matter you cannot obtain a court appointed attorney. And there are no "pro bono lawyers." Attorneys may do a certain amount of pro bono work. But the... View More
answered on Oct 3, 2024
I'm not sure what one thing has to do with the other but without the custodial parents consent you will need a court order to get a paternity test. If you take the mother to court to assert your parental rights, the court can order a paternity test. Speak directly with an attorney to... View More
My credit debt payments are cutting into the food budget and rent just went up again. I have not missed a single credit card payment. My total debt is $23,232.54 and my monthly income is between $2500 to $2900. I currently hold 2 part time, minimum wage jobs and am enrolled as a full time student... View More
answered on Oct 3, 2024
I've had scores of bankruptcy clients who have voiced deep regrets about debt consolidation groups.
Only a federal bankruptcy court, not any state court and certainly no debt consolidation group can provide a legal discharge of debt.
And with certain limited exceptions, no... View More
Initially I was told I could work remote. Between the time that I was told this and the time I had a set move date, the employer put me on probation. Now two weeks out from my move, which falls a week before the end of the probation period, the employer tells me I cannot work remote for other... View More
answered on Oct 3, 2024
If the work from home was part of a reasonable accommodation of a disabling condition, the answer might be quite different. If not, then as an at will employee your employer can change the terms and conditions of your employment at any time and for any reason or even for no reason at all. That... View More
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