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    50% Joint and Survivor Retirement/Annuity

    sounds like they are saying because you hit 62 and your SS is higher than your pension payment (therefore it being $0) that your survivor benefits would also be $0 because your spouse can get the higher of his or your SS survivor benefits which they know is higher than the $1055.03? That's what...
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    50% Joint and Survivor Retirement/Annuity

    Honestly this is one to ask your HR department at your prior employer to clarify. What you really need is the plan language/document and then clarification from those that work with the plan consistently. However, based on what you have written, yes, I would expect him to receive the 50% J&S...
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    Board Member on payment plan in good standing?

    who are you in the situation? How much is the arrearage? One partial year? Multiple years? To me "in arrears" doesn't allow our homeowners to vote OR be on the board if they owe anything. But that is based on our covenants, not yours. i think it looks VERY bad to have current boardmember who...
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    Can I Opt Out of my HOA?

    Failure to pay dues will lead to a lien on your property . If there is a mortgage, your mortgage company might pay the lien and then charge you back for it depending on your mortgage paperwork. But you are going to have to declare the lien if you ever try to sell the house and it is unpaid. If...
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    Legal action against HS or university for not letting me graduate due to unique circumstances?

    Talk to the school board- this is higher than your local admin if it is due to a union strike. I can't believe you would be the only HS Sr in this situation. Since this is a deal between the school district and the university (dual credit) and the HS pays the bills, they have an investment...
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    Furniture store saying my paid for item is abandoned after 7 weeks, won't refund money

    Most debit cards are backed by Visa/Mastercard....does yours have any major logo on it other than the banks?
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    Furniture store saying my paid for item is abandoned after 7 weeks, won't refund money

    how did you pay? By CC? if so immediately file a dispute with the CC company - usually there are 60-90 days SOLs on disputed transactions....wait much longer and you might lose that option too..
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    Piercing the Veil in Real Estate

    this was very much how the last property management company I worked for was setup.. Luckily we were not sued to the point of trying to pierce the corporate veil in the 12 1/2 years I was there as their HR Director for corporate and all LLCs. The CEO however was an attorney and had outside legal...
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    Boss grabbed my arm

    I am not an attorney, but have 20+ yrs in HR and investigations and no I don't think you have a case and will agree with the 2 attorneys that did respond. Unless somehow you can prove ongoing bad behavior by your supervisor a one-time incident isn't going to be enough of a pattern. Generally...
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    Breaching contracts in cases of deceit

    basic business principle -- don't sign contracts or agreements without fully understanding them and/or possibly passing them by your own legal counsel (and don't go by a verbal understanding with a salesperson!) Don't ever sign a document out of fear! I question the business judgment of an...
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    Comic Strip Government

    Exactly how many times do you feel like they should try to contact you? In the end, there are rules. May be bad policy (and I never expressed any feeling about "the social net" and I am not a gentleman) but at some point there have to be boundaries and rules or that social net would not be...
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    Please help!!! AMS taekwondo contract

    Have to agree -- once you went past the 6 month mark, it sounds like to automatically converted to the regular payment system (2 yr commitment). That said, you should ask them for the back side of the contract/agreement if you didn't get it. Most gyms require that you sign both sides so that...
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    Comic Strip Government

    "I do have an ID locking service with a guarantee but I'm not going to bother with a PO Box" I suggest you "bother" with a PO Box if you want to make sure you get mail that is addressed to you when you live in a 50 room "large boarding house" especially since you admit you expect mail to be...
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    Please help!!! AMS taekwondo contract

    "I signed this contract while it was blank and it said “try six month”. You should ALWAYS read the whole contract prior to signing because at the bottom it says that "buyer will fill in all blanks" and it seems you did not and someone might have done so at a later time. What does the reverse...
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    Michigan Is this a HIPPA violation?

    sounds a bit like homework....
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    Use of the word FREE in advertising

    How is this not a conflict of interest to be running a side business at the same time you are being paid by the insurance company to be the adjuster? I'd make sure you didn't lose your relationship there as they are the ones giving you the leads to those whose roofs you are now assessing...
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    Fired for asking for more working hours

    Yes it is legal..... Some other thoughts.....It seems like the person to ask for more hours is not the store manager but rather the general manager. The store manager might have overstepped his/her authority by granting more hours. If your fiancee knew who to ask and tried to do a work around...
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    HR miss management of sexual assault and harassment.

    did you involve the local police? Did you file a restraining order? If anything, your coworker's wife has more of a case for employer negligence than you would and I am not sure how she would if it also happened outside of work. Where did it happen? Why were she and this person together in the...
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    Other Criminal Charges & Offenses Houston Police Chief cites speeder doing 140MPH!

    that was a BIG break .....I have to wonder where in Houston it was and what time of the day.... I've stayed in the Galleria area in a highrise off of Richmond/Westheimer and the drag races at around 2-3am are very well known.....but I don't think someone could get up to 140 mph!
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    Do I have a legal case

    did you report any of this to Human Resources, OSHA, HIPAA compliance or the EEOC? You say the waste issue went on for months, but that it took 2 days to get it removed "from your person"? What exactly does that mean? One specific incident won't make for an intimidation/harassment claim...
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