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I wrote regulations for the IRS when I was an attorney there. I know how to write rules. And the example you gave is exactly the kind of rule to which I was referring. It tells you what may not do. You bolded only two words of the rule to prove your point, but what you didn't bold is the...

The most common rule in the U.S. is that parents are obligated to pay for any contract of the minor that the parent guaranteed and are obligated to pay for certain necessities for the child (e.g. food, healthcare, etc.) College tuition is not a necessity and in most states the parents are under...

I recall one of my mother's oft given advice to my sister and me was the old adage "If you have nothing good to say about another, then say nothing at all." It's the same idea. And good advice, for the most part anyway.

That may be the case, though in the places I've lived that's not how ordinances are written. They are written to impose some kind of restriction. Even an ordinance that says "the homeowner may only have homes with outside colors that are on the council's approved list" is one that tells you what...

There is no federal or state law that prohibits persons from discussing public events or public records. The First Amendment would protect such speech from government action against the persons talking about it. The court records for these cases are public records and discussion of the alleged...

The question you are asking is about venue, which is the legal term referring to a particular court within the same court system. In this case, you could file the claim either in the county where the defendant lives or in the county where the action that gives rise to the claim occurred, and...

I'll add this. If you worked for a private employer then your termination is only wrongful (and thus illegal) if the reason for your termination was because: of your race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, etc) national origin, citizenship, age, disability, or...

Ok, I'm a bit confused about your facts. You said that you were terminated from a "human resources role in the federal government" but then refer to the manager saying you were fired "because I lost the business a lot of money". That latter statement, and several other statements you made...

That's why I included the term "restricted by contract." If the lease contract prohibits what the tenant is doing then it doesn't matter if there isn't any law prohibiting it. But being in breach of contract is not a crime and thus not "illegal". That's what my last line of my prior response was...

But that's the problem, isn't it? You assume what others say about the guy, even the anonymous posts (which apparently are the majority of the original posts) and if any others in that group see him, they'll treat him as though those statements were true. But, especially with anonymous posts...

But unless you are in the OP's city/county that experience won't necessarily match what the OP's state and locality require. That was the point of explaining the IRS rule. Every jurisdiction has its own rules for this stuff, and there is no substitute for looking at the actual law or regulation...

If there is any limit it is likely to be found in your city or county ordinances. If your county/city might have those online you can look at the ordinances to see if any of them apply. Or they may have a set of them available at a city or county office where you can look through them. Apart...

The creditor typically must first initiate the action to stop the wage garnishment. Until it does that, the employer may well be obligated to keep deducting the garnishment amount as the garnishment requires. For example, while IRS wage levies will state a total amount due as of a certain date...

For federal income tax purposes, the $100 is your gross income from self-employment and the fee is a deduction from that. I suspect that SSA uses the same approach. But either way your net income from self-employment is what SSA really cares about. You can read about how SSA does that in federal...

Some mortgage lenders won't go for an arrangement where the down payment is funded by some other debt. Doing that does increases the credit risk of the borrower over a simple cash downpayment because there is now a new debt that must be paid along with the mortgage. The other common...

Very few states have a gift tax. You can probably count them on one hand. Many states in the last decade have repealed their estate tax because the federal government took away the state death tax credit for the federal estate return that effectively resulted in the federal government paying...

Perhaps it's because I'm a skeptical person by nature, but I see the potential for abuse in these kinds of groups.

There are a lot of important facts to know before writing up a partnership agreement (or whatever the foundational document is for the type of business organization through which you will operate this business). In what country will the business be organized and what kind of business entity will...

I think you need a contract attorney to read the exact language of the contract and tell you how the state appellate courts ruled on similar cases (if indeed they have one come before the court). The problem I see with what you presented here is that there is potential ambiguity in the contract...