Recent content by dtm1966

What is the name of your state? Texas My son goes to a public junior high school. Two years ago they went to school uniforms. Ok I understand why they did it, I can live with it. Last year they decided no one could consume carbonated beverages or candy in the school and that the kids could...

What is the name of your state? Texas A family member was recently laid off 6 weeks prior to his full retirement date and found out because of this he will only get 30% of what he would get if they had waited 6 more weeks and allowed him to retire. Is this legal and who in the state...

What is the name of your state? Texas We have a leasing on a house through June but are being relocated out of the country in the middle of February. The owner has said she wants us to pay March, April, and May rent in February before we leave and that she plans to keep our security deposit no...

What is the name of your state? Texas I am owed about $3000 from a company called CINCO. When I went to file a case in small claims court my research discovered that the company had had it corporate privileges suspended two years before the debt was incurred and its charter revoked one year...

What is the name of your state? Texas I had group insurance through my employer as a full time employee since 2/1/01. It is a small business with less than 15 employees. They took a deduction from my paycheck every 2 weeks to pay for the coverage (I believe this was approximately half of the...

What is the name of your state? Texas I and five other employees are suing my former employer in small claims court for unpaid vacation time. During my employment, I was under the impression that I was working for a corporation but found out when I was researching for the suit that his...

What is the name of your state? Texas I actually posted this under small claims court on 6/15 but no one replied to me. I am hoping someone in this forum may be able to respond. I tried to make a link to jump over there but couldn't figure out how to do it so I am copying it over. Sorry if...

I am no lawyer but it sounds horrible that the husband can murder his wife then basically inherit all her property and tell his mother to dispose of it for him. It doesn't seem right/legal that a husband should be able to benefit monitarily by killing his wife.

What is the name of your state? Texas There are 5 employees suing our former employer in small claims court for unused vacation pay. I worked for a contracting firm A (who basically was my former employer – it was a one man show) who placed me at firm B. This was a long-standing agreement of...

I also should have mentioned he paid 1 of the 7 employees with unpaid vacation but not the other 6. The person he paid was the only person not picked up by another contract company and so still out of work 2-3 weeks later. Since we were all laid off at the same time for the same reason can he...

What is the name of your state? Texas I was an employee for a contracting firm I will call company A. My employer contracted me to a company I will call Company B. The contract between the two companies was not renewed (after 20 years) and I was laid of. My employer agreed to pay me (and the...

Follow up question Thanks for the prompt reply I guess this "Texas Rules for Civil Procedure chapter 194" That the lawyer keeps referring to in his request does not apply to the small claims court Thanks again

What is the name of your state? Texas I am suing someone in small claims court for failure to pay me $3000. They have retained an attorney who has sent me a letter requesting copies of all documentation I plan to present (I think this is called discovery). They have also stated in the letter...

What is the name of your state? Texas i am going to sue a corporation in small claims court but when researching officers and company information i discovered the status of the corporation is "not in good standing" because they have not paid their franchise tax (don't know what this is) since...

What is the name of your state? Texas I was an employee for a contracting firm. My employer agreed to pay me (an many other employees) our unused vacation when the contract I was working on was not renewed (after 20 years) and I was layed off . He agreed to pay me as soon as all invoices...