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I agree with you, shrinkmaster. Sometimes I think we tend to be a little bit too blunt and judgmental with our "legally you're nothing to your stepchildren" replies. I imagine most of them realize that, and are trying to help and be supportive of their spouse/significant other and, by extension...

I don't claim to know anything from a legal standpoint but if it isn't child endangerment to drive 100 mph with kids in the car, it sure ought to be. Last person I remember hearing about around here that did that died when they lost control of the car at that speed....so did the kids.

Ditto what Leslie said...in several spots the OP refers to the ex as "he" and "him" so I would assume the OP is the mother. And nowhere is it mentioned who has primary custody.

Your "alcove" bedroom reminded me of when my parents bought a house when I was 13. It was a three-bedroom house, but there were six of us - my parents, my brother, two sisters & me. My dad partitioned off a bedroom for my brother at one end of the enclosed porch, and my two younger sisters and I...

She said she kept her maiden name when she got married, decades ago, so her "legal" name she's talking about is her maiden name. She said she tried to hyphenate it for the driver's license but it sounds to me like it was the DMV's mistake because they ran the two names together (for instance...

It's safe to assume that most people have credit cards these days, and use them for many different purposes. I don't see how your ex knowing that you used a credit card to pay for your daughter's glasses is any different than someone seeing you take out a credit card in any public place and use...

There is no law anywhere that I know of against opposite sex siblings sharing a room.

Whether or not you knew it was called "structuring", that's still what you did. You knew there would be paperwork filed when you deposited $10,000 or more at one time, and you split up your deposits into smaller increments and made them over a period of three weeks to avoid having the Currency...

There is no law anywhere that I've ever heard of against opposite sex siblings or half-siblings sharing a room.

Thank you, Leslie, you took the words right out of my mouth. I got pregnant during my junior year and I was not in any way a "bad" girl, or a bad influence, or a "bad apple". My parents didn't somehow fail to properly parent me, either...they preached abstinence until marriage and were really...

Splitting hairs is exactly what it is. When my ex and I divorced, I would have been perfectly happy to never have to speak to or see him again, but I understood that I needed to maintain a cordial relationship with him for the sake of the kids. Lately it seems that I've seen more parents who...

If you count each 24-hour period from Monday July 25 @6:30 p.m. to Monday August 1 @6:30 p.m., you come up with 7 24-hour periods. If you don't take that into consideration, then Monday - Monday does look like 8 days. I suspect many people might consider 24-hour periods as opposed to calendar...

It clearly didn't occur to you that the premium cost goes up whenever you add a spouse or family. On our insurance plan, the monthly premium amount for employee + spouse coverage is a little over twice as much as the employee only premium amount. Using your company's scenario of $510/$710 per...

Then make a point of removing yourself from the equation. Let her know you're completely done with her and her game playing. Don't try to get an explanation as to why she did it. You don't say how old you are but I suspect you're fairly young, young enough to not have realized yet that there...

Are you sure this guy is really her brother?!

There's a very simple fix for this: figure out if he was paid correctly, and if not, issue another check for the remainder owed. If he was paid correctly, let him know that his final pay was correct. It has nothing to do with whether or not he's already negotiated the check.

The OP referred to the heir as her niece, not her deceased brother's niece, which I took to mean that the niece is her brother's daughter, and wouldn't his child be considered a closer relative than his sister?

Yes, unfortunately that's a game that I've seen many people play. My ex left me when our son was a baby. In our divorce, I got full physical & legal custody but we were allowed to work out on our own when he could see our son and as long as I knew in advance he wanted to spend time with him, I...

I agree with the others who said to mark it and put it back in the mail. It wouldn't cause you a problem if you just ignored it, but it might cause issues for the poor unsuspecting person it was addressed to if they didn't respond to it, so in my way of thinking, returning it is the decent thing...

There's been a story in the news lately about the body of a little girl who died around 145 years ago, and was found buried under a home in San Francisco. The home is built on land where a cemetery used to be, and they had moved all the bodies but apparently missed this one tiny coffin. The...