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I live in an apartment building in the state of Virginia. Several months ago I contacted my landlord to file a noise complaint aganist a tenant in another apartment below me by email. The landlord asked me what time of day was it that I heard the excessive noise coming from this tenants...

My wife got hired back in February 2017 at a assisted living facility as a housekeeper. When she first got the job she was warned by the housekeeping supervisor that their was a housekeeper that they were watching because she was being rude to the other housekeepers. She said several...

I hired a lawyer to represent me in a defamation case in a Virginia civil circuit court . He prepared and filed the suit on August 3, 2016. Since you have a year to serve it he decided to wait. Since a year will be up sometime around August 3, 2017 I decided to call him a few days ago and ask...

What is the statute of limitations for filing a breach of contract suit in Virginia small claims court?

What is the statute of limitations for filing a libel, slander, or defamation lawsuit in Virginia?

I hired a unemployment appeals representative from a internet business based in Pennsylvania. I paid them $400.00 to representative me at my appeal hearing in Richmond, Virginia. They communicated with the Virginia Employment Commission only by email and never actually came to Virginia to...

If you report a business to the FTC and they decide to sue them does this take away from your opportunity for yourself to take legal action against that same company?

My wife and I live in Virginia. We have been married for about 1 1/2 years but we have known each other for over 9 years. Ever since we met she has been paying child support. When we met she owed over $9,000 but now she has brought it down to around $4,000. She has worked a lot of different...

My wife works in Virginia for a maintenance company in a mall. She has worked their for over three years. Her hours were recently reduced and she wants to file for partial unemployment. If she files and gets partial unemployment can her employer turn around and fire her? Since she is an at...

I was thinking about hiring a "unemployment appeal hearing representative" for my wife's appeal. Here are her qualifications: she was a administrative law judge from 02/2008 until 07/2011. She presided over unemployment hearings, she administered oaths, ruled on evidence presented, regulated...

I live in a condominium in the state of Virginia. I rent it with my wife. We have been their for over six years. I had some college students move next to me and my wife in another unit back in August 2014. After a couple of months the noise level from their unit got excessive. Another unit and...

I hired a hearing and appeals representative from the state of Pennsylvania. They have been doing unemployment appeals for over twenty years. My wife and I live in Virginia. They advertise on the internet that they do unemployment appeals in 23 states including Virginia. I communicated with...

My wife fell at work and injuried her left knee. She filed a Virginia workers compensation claim and was seen by a orthopaedic. She got a MRI and was diagnosed with "patella femoral syndrome" even though the MRI was normal. The doctor gave her a cortisone injection and told her to take...

My wife was fired for filling out a Virginia workers compensation claim. I am helping her fill out the EEOC intake questionnaire for retaliation. In the questionnaire it asks for the "number of employees in the organization at all locations." The choices are: fewer than 15, 15-100, 101-200...

I filed a EEOC discrimination charge on 07/2013 for my wife. We did not use a lawyer to help us. When she receives the right-to-sue letter and she has to get a lawyer to represent her will he be able to add or remove anything from her original charge with the EEOC? If the lawyer does not like...

My wife has not gotten her w-2's from her former employer because he refuses to release them. We have tried every way to get them. Can you file a lawsuit if he refuses.

My wife got a Virginia workers compensation lawyer because her former employer would not file her workers compensation claim. My wife had to file it. Long story short her lawyer settled the case for $xx,xxx.xx. In the settlement part of the money was for my wife's "lost wages." Since my wife...