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Am I Being Out of Line w/ This Contract?

Hello
I was approached to be a designer at a outstandingly large cult show event this spring. I do not know the guy who says he desires to book me, I asked him for his company name, website, etc. and he claims he doesn't own one because it's a big network of society doing it, that they'll make a website and myspace for it a couple months since the show.
He claims he is going to pay me for adjectives labor and materials in the clothing I create, plus travel cost, plus lodging, plus another big chunk of money.
All contained by all it sounds similar to a great thing to do, he SEEMS legit but I hold still asked him to sign a contract. It is nothing big, lately something stating that I would get compensated what he said he'd pay and that I would be given credit for my designs (for example: I do not want to show up, appendage over my clothes, then be given the cold shoulder as someone else take all the credit).
After asking this of him, presently he doesn't seem interested surrounded by having me! Was I out of smudge?!
Answers: You were absolutely NOT out of line and okay within your rights to request that he sign a contract. This is a business transaction. . .in need a signed contract, you could be left holding the shoulder bag. If this guy really is legitimate, he will agree to sign the contract.
Honestly he should enjoy presented you with the contract considering he approached you... He should own everything written up, give you a randomness to read over and discuss it.

Since he did not, then it is equal of you to provide a contract to protect your own interests and artistic talents.

Don't persue this guy. He's not reputable. Does he even hold a business card?
Nope. If he isn't willing to stand by his word contained by a contract, he wasn't intending to keep his word contained by the first place.

Keep up the good work. Your insistence on keeping things printed always protect both party to a contract. Just make sure what you want within there is in actual fact there. Normally you necessitate an attorney for that.

** Note: This is a general discussion of the subject situation of your question and not decriminalized advice. Local law or your particular situation may correct the general rules. For a specific answer to your sound out you should consult legal counsel near whom you can discuss all the facts of your shield. **
No, you weren't out of line. If you required to be, at least, reimbursed for your costs, a written agreement would be needed if you needed to enforce that agreement. Everyone in legal business writes out their agreements. The only intention not to do so is because it is either not lawful, or the guy who wants to book you does not intend to honor his promise to compensate or to provide you with the credit you deserve.
I would bet that since he presently is not so interested, that he was playing you for a sucker.
General Common Sense Rule: If someone isn't likely to write it down and sign it, they never meant to be held to their word surrounded by the first place.
General Common Sense Rule #2: When a deal is made to exchange things of utility, and your performance happen before the other people,' then you are surrounded by the vulnerable ("sucker") position and should protect yourself from the other personage not performing his side of the deal surrounded by any way possible.

If you move into an apartment community should the rental managers inform you if within is a registered .

sex offender within community? Lately I have be reading a lot contained by the news something like sex offenders within my area. And contained by one town all offender had to report to the police bureau between 5 and stay till 10 pm on halloween. So I decided to check the local register and at hand are 60 in my fastener code. Then I discovered that there be one registered two doors down from me.
I feel that this information should enjoy been disclosed to me since I signed a lease. I have a small child to surmise about.

So is this something that should be disclosed to tenant, and or buyers when looking for a place to live?

And don't tell me if I don't approaching it move, because I plan on moving at the end of the month, and hold done my own research now for where on earth I am moving to.
Answers: I agree that it's important for population to know if a registered sex offender is living surrounded by your area. However, I don't suggest the police are going to post signs on his/her house. It's up to you to find out. Often it's not the first thing you ponder about but as a parent it's get to be on the list. Society can't lately create a town for all sex offender to live in, we a short time ago through them to that town after their out. They need to live somewhere and it's our responsibility to find out.

We don't know where on earth all the murders, break and enter, and other offender live, there's no registery for that. We really just hold to take a accidental and never leave your children alone. Or move to the middle of no where on earth and never leave your home and hold top-notch security.
I mull over you should be told, but only if you enjoy children or are planning to.

If not, then it wouldnt affect you so I guess, no call for to know.
They are not required to do so.

That being said, distance does not create safekeeping. Two doors or twenty miles are all alike when everyone owns a car. If you want to ruminate about your small child, edify them not to be victims, don't move some place where in that is not a registered sex offender and assume adjectives is good. Besides, a registered sex wrongdoer is only a sex guilty party that got caught. Registration does not minister to you protect your kids from the ones that have not be caught.
No. It should not be the rental manager's duty to constantly check public records for you. That should be your work. They're your landlords, not your parents.

Access to toilet facilities?

As far as I can remember, it used to be a court requirement for petrol stations to allow bona fide travellers use of toilet facilities...I have to stop at one today and ask to use the toilet, but I was refuse access. They had no public services and would not let me use the staff one on Health and Safety grounds. Since I'd be driving quite a while and be in an nouns I was strange with, it departed me in a terrifically difficult situation. Fortunately I found a pub quite close by (and merely in time!), but this be just luck. Surely this situation cannot be legitimate?
Does anyone know if I have grounds for complaint or am I of late being fussy?
Answers: Motorway Service Areas hold to provide toilets by law. Don't imagine anyone else has to, also, the Disability Discrimination Act mode that disabled people must enjoy access to toilets where provided so Service Stations, face with a huge bill to upgrade would fairly shut them altogether.
A local supermarket is in dispute near the council because -
Public toilets built under the language of the planning permission are kept locked by the store.
So it seem to be planning not law.
No you dont enjoy any grounds for a complaint, as the facilties are private property.

The only means of access that these sort of places would have to ket you use the toilets, is that if you enjoy a medical condition.

For example, people that havehad a colsotomy operation. They transport a card that state they may need to use toilet surrounded by an emergency.

Can an employer force a salaried employee punch a time clock?

i work at a small company as a salaried hand and i am pregnant. today my employer told me that i am not required to punch in on a time clock. i check and none of the other salaried body are being required to do this. Is this legitimate? I feel close to i am being discriminated against because I am pregnant.
Answers: I assume you be a sign of that you ARE required to punch in on a time clock while other salaried team ARE NOT required to do so. While it is legal, and within fact commonplace, for salaried body to be required to keep track of the time they work, it is not court for him to make you (based on your pregnancy), and you alone, punch within on the time clock.

Update in response to K R: what I intended was: If the SOLE aim they are making you punch the time clock is because you are pregnant, it is actionable. K R is correct in that, if they are doing it because they estimate you are taking too much time off work and are checking your hours, afterwards it is legal. However, it does not appear, from your additions, that you are taking too much time sour.
read your question, does it label sense to you?

not sure what you are asking?

Ask him why you are having to do it.
Go ahead and punch the clock. If you're prompt, it'll only confer documentary evidence of your timely reporting and departure.

Or you can go the scalded earth EEOC route and alienate them to a fare-thee-well, claiming Title VII defilement due to an employment action taken on the reason of sex.

Yes, you can be required to punch a clock. If you're being treated differently, I would expect them to be capable of articulate a nondiscriminatory reason for it (i.e., "we've notice you're tardy and we want to track it").
Yes, absolutely. Being salaried does not denote you are not responsible for your time and that you are not required to show you are working the required hours.

I worked as a consultant for some time and not only did I enjoy to report my overall time, I had to report my time by client. Major discomfort.

They don't need an excuse. If you are on the dot and working the required hours the time clock will work in your favor.
Do ya believe maybe you are taking bad too much time and the salary they are paying you is surrounded by question? They can own anyone punch a clock at their discresion. If i read it right I think you might involve to check your work ethics not company policies.


and to heather comments.. it most unquestionably is legal when an hand (man or woman) is taking off too much time for the employer to ask this and take the proper act. And yes singling you out to punch a clock is 100% legal if they are interview your time spent.

Is there a statute in NJ that say bars must still close at 2AM when daylight reserves starts?

Bars in NJ do not stay uncap an extra hour that night even though at 2AM it become 1AM again. Just wondering if there be a specific statute that regulated that, otherwise I would think at most minuscule some bars contained by NJ would go the extra hour, and I don`t know they do, just not the ones i go to in college...
Answers: Good request for information! Don't know if NJ has a specific imperative requiring them to close at that time, but there is a logic for them to.

The time make over occurs at the moment that 2:00 a.m. is arlready certainly reached. Therefore, at that moment, they are required to be closed.

They would after be required to remain closed until the legal pipe time in the state. Noon, or doesn`t matter what it is.

From a practical standpoint, bars aren't plausible to fight for the technicality of staying expand the extra hour. They already had a full shift, and are tired and equipped to go home.
2 AM is still 2 AM DST or not

What is your stand on abortion? Handicapped child?Rape victim? Partial birth?

Personally i believe if you enjoy unprotected sex it is your fault and do not permit the baby perish. However if you find out it may be mentally handicapped or if you be raped then i vote the choice is up to the individual. And for partial birth i believe if the mothers health is within dangered her life is more im portant than the fetus.
Answers: it is murder...

it is ripping little arms and legs right out of sockets...it is barbaric... and lately because it is legal...doesn't label it right..

you would do away will all handicapped children would you? capably honey...welcome to the third Reich! Sieg Heil! Hitler would be so pleased...

abortion cheapens duration... and partial birth abortions??? on a healthy infant???? oh my god!

there is NO function to allow a baby to crown...push a verbs through the soft spot and scramble it's brains... that is a viable toddler...one that would live... a mother has to be unconscious around the heart to allow such a thing... and doctor who would do it? is evil incarnate.

vivacity is cheap nowadays... and next to every baby we "legally" appropriate the life of.it only just becomes that much more so.

btw...Beethoven...be blind and deaf. would you have abort him? how about helen keller? Would you abort them? And exactly where on earth would you draw the line on abortions? Does the little one have to be faultlessly healthy or can a mom abort because it have webbed toes?

How about our elderly? You know…the ones who own had strokes? Heart attacks? Breathing problems? Shall we throw them away too? I close-fisted, they are a drag on our society, aren’t’ they? They don’t produce… they just sorta’ vegetate….

I know I greatly expounded on your inventive question…you did not ask about euthanasia… but the point I am trying to form is this…

When life become so cheap we can, without a second thought, toss it away…how smooth then does it become to allow our sick/handicapped/elderly to be tossed away surrounded by much the same demeanour?….

Btw…in partial birth abortions…mom must still go through labor and delivery…the singular difference is she has a unmoving baby at the end… it isn’t for her health…and it most distinctly is not for the baby’s….
I support abortion on demand for anyone that wishes it.

The only time third trimester abortions ensue is when the mothers life is contained by danger. They're hugely rare and I find it silly that folks protest it.
I believe it is no body's business except the mother and her God if she has one. I deliberate no one should hold to live under the rules of some religion contained by which they do not believe.

If you believe that abortion is wrong then you should not enjoy one. Leave the others alone.
Abortion in standard is wrong.
Abortion for handicapped...I have a problem beside this, and feel it is a tragic debris, but do not feel it should be unconstitutional.
Abortion for rape...Should not be illegal
As for partial birth abortion...if it go that far, the danger to the mother almost NEVER routine that the baby would want to be aborted. In those uncommon cases, the mother's life comes first, but when they use the barbaric method because a woman changed her mind and does not want it, the mother, father (if contained by on decision) doctor, and any attending medical staff who does not walk out should be charged near murder or accessory to murder.

some polisci fool...You are full of crap. If the lone time partial birth abortions happened be when the life of the mother be threatened, there would be no problem, however: thousands of partial birth abortions are perform every year, almost exclusively for elective and not health-based reasons...see the intertwine below.
I would be for allowing a woman who was raped to enjoy an abortion, although I saw a story once about a woman who chose to tilt her child from a rape, and she loved him as much as her other children. I think it would be too easier said than done emotionally on most women.

I know a few mentally and physically handicapped people who are a bliss to be around, and they love life. Why would anyone want to decimate them?

If the mothers life is surrounded by danger, by adjectives means rob the baby.

But to snuff out a baby because the mom simply doesn't want to have a newborn right now...to be precise so wrong. Women should keep their legs closed if they don't want children.
u are making big issue of small tissue and u own many issues , and want to know the stand
i will sit down and answer at amusement
I feel you are wake a fine line here.. You and I are not God. Partial Birth Abortion is outright MURDER! Who are we to look at a precious little one and a mother and choose one over the other? Partial birth is a 'full grown baby'... A rape victim, while the devastation have to be unreal, can seek counseling. The child can be put up for adoption right at birth. She does not even hold to lay eyes on the baby. Why put the guilt of 'bloodshed a baby' on top of the horror of a rape? How much can a creature take? And why pronounce 'judgment' on an innocent little newborn? And in regard to a handicapped child____, my goodness, is at hand no love left for the innocent? Have we become so 'hard' that if our child is not perfect, after we just waste it? Do we no longer see the beauty that God see in the unborn child?
One wonders, 'what if' you/I, when conceived, be an imposition to our parents. It's all so subjective, isn't it. God help out us for killing what we don't want!
I believe that surrounded by all cases, it is up to the parents. I agree next to you about cases near handicapped children and rape victims, but I don't think those are the lone times. If neither parent is going to care for the child, why bring it into the world? It will with the sole purpose be put up for adoption, or land contained by a home where it is unwanted, or the product of mournful parents. Is it really good to own the child just to offer it a crummy life?

Also, a fetus is not moderately life, although it is its starting point. I don't see it as murder to be aborting a child beforehand it is in any channel a conscious being. And if you believe it is, is it still agreeable to "kill" it, even if it is handicapped or the result of rape? In either travel case - for that point of view - the child is innocent surrounded by all matter, and deserves the chance at time (unless the handicap leads to a level of life not worth living).

Hope that help.
I agree with you on comfortable abortion on demand.
The rest of these are difficult soul-searching medical nouns and personal moral questions, not official ones.

I personally would not abort a handicapped child--I enjoy seen too masses miracle babies where assessment results said one thing and veracity was completely different. I also individually believe it's better not to have adjectives those tests, especially the ones that are invasive and could in truth harm the tot in utero. There are too frequent variables and false positives, and an expectant mama doesn't need that extra stress.

I could support a exclude on partial-birth abortion, and I could support parental notification laws. There is almost no justification in our modern society to hang about until the 3rd trimester to terminate a pregnancy, and the undercooked exceptions could possibly be handled on a case-by-case spring, but they should truly have to prove it be a life or extermination situation (and not just mental anguish or some such garbage.) I also believe that a girl's parents have the right to know of and consent to their daughter have such a serious medical procedure. If a minor can't legally consent to have sex, how can she be old plenty to consent to terminate a pregnancy??

Adoption might be the most loving answer surrounded by a case of rape.
I believe if the law were changed to brand abortion only allowed in cases of rape, incest, vivacity of the mother, etc. then we would hold everybody and her sister claiming one of these situations whether it were true or not, and how could you possibly adjudicate adjectives these cases soon enough to bring the abortion anyway??

The genie (attitudes on abortion) is out of the bottle now & I don't see how to put it support in. It will nick a change of people's heart to be more compassionate toward unborn life for the society to move. I think if you polled the majority of citizens, you would find strong consensus for putting some plausible restrictions on it so that it is not an easy alternative birth control method.
Well, I don't own any kids YET,( I am over 8 months along.) Right now I am still pro-choice, but that may changeover after she's born. As far as her being handicapped, I will love her no business what!

911 operators...and conditions checks?

I am currently interested in becoming a 911 hand and I saw that you must be able to overhaul a background check. What exactly are they checking for? I hold a misdemeanor for shop lifting within times gone by year. It was lower than a $150.00 so I didn’t have to shift to court or anything and I took care of everything right away. Even though it be a misdemeanor I did get cuffed and fingerprinted. Does this totally count me out? Please agree to me know how you know also. Ex: are you a 911 operator, know someone who is…etc.
Thank you completely much in finance. Please don’t tell me how stupid I be for shop lifting…trust me I already know! If I could take it final I would, but I can’t.
Answers: you should be ok as long as you tell them since you do the background check... they are mostly looking for felonys.. you might have to own a certified document of what happened and what adjectives took place... i just only just got out of emt conservatory and had to do two milieu checks... a few months prior i recieved an open container ticket because my passanger be drinking but it was my vehicle... i had to write out a form stating what happen and i had to jump get a copy of the court documents stating that i compensated everything. by showing that you are not trying to hide anything, it help alot.
Since it happened smaller quantity then a year ago I consider that may cause a few eyebrows to lift up. And that is exactly the brand of thing they are looking for. It's one and only a misdemeanor, but since it was so recent I don't suggest you'll have an assured time of geting a job close to that. Sorry.

Why do companies use separation and release forms.?

What is the motive for companies to use a Separation and Release Form when firing an employee?
Answers: CYA (or cover your @**)
Because a) It make sure that the person doing the seperation doesn't miss something that they inevitability to do, and b) By *only* making space for the things they need to do, it prevents some middle officer waffling on within a free-form letter and writing things that could be used against the company following.

For example, if the form says "Reason for termination?" and have check boxes for half a dozen - adjectives legal - reason for the manager to pick the right one, you don;t bring back a manager writing a memorandum that says "You're really too outdated to fit in here" and getting the firm sued for age nouns.

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How do you stop someone from using vop to harass and stalk you?What countries hold good law about stalking?

I am here,they are contained by europe.My family is jittery almost every day by someone using vop.The phone companies right to be heard they have their hand tied because the calls orginate contained by another country.We have changed phone numbers,e mail and even some names.Right immediately we seem to hold little recourse as we cannot locate this person.What can we do?First it be just emails consequently the vop.I contacted a high offical within their country ,A viceroy ,who said to me they have no policing conduct.What steps can I take legitimately to track this person down and enjoy them prosecuted?My friend says ask inhabitants like me,So,,,,,,if you hold been here and done that, Please help.
Answers: I have a problem and I am in San Diego, California. Some one be calling me all the time stalking me. I ring the phone company they used the traps and traces with the police department, even though the police get the number they couldn't do any thing. The police stated that because it be through another phone carrier they couldn't take the number and do any thing in the region of it.

This person be breaking in to my answering mechanism and listening to my messages. I get another machine beside a bigger code and he broke that as well and be back to listen to my messages. I was so ticked stale that nothing could be done to lend a hand me. The only article the police said was" have you changed your phone number?" To which I told them yes, and that he'd gotten the number again even beside it unlisted.

I finally gave up on the answering appliance and went through the mobile company and got their answering system, where on earth I have to nickname another number to pick up my messages. There is no answering mach. for him to break into. I have my phone set to ring 2 times through them so that I don't hold to have it ringing forever.

He can not communicate if I'm home or not, even if I'm on the phone my phone still takes messages and does not supply out a busy signal. So he has no course of knowing if I'm there or not. I own been a great deal happier since I went to using this system. No more invasion of my privacy, via him listen to my messages. My first answering machine also have room monitor on it. I know that he found that out and was listen into my home to see if he could hear me. I was so freaked out when I realize that he was doing that. I feel so violated!

I later realize he was doing that when I would take a call and consequently there wouldn't be any item happening and he be still on the phone for a long time. When he hung up there should hold been a 1 indication that I have gotten a call, in that was no 1 after he hung up. That be when I found out that the machine does not confer on a number on the machine, when you check your messages or when the room monitor when you phone call your house from away. I was so freaked out!!

God bless you I know how tough this is for you to be having to step through. It just isn't event when others treat you like that and can catch away with it. All of us call for better laws that are tougher on folks such as this, the arm of the law desires to be able to be like mad longer to reach out and acquire them.
the other answer is excellent and the only entity I might add is to sitting duck the email as spam and you won't have to bother near it, and if the guy is on the phone when he calls, I once hear of someone getting a screaming mechanism for self defense and holding it up to the mouthpiece when someone call to harass her and she broke the man's eardrum so that be the end of that but I don't know if that would work next to vop
I am not sure that they would be interested but perhaps if you look up Interpol online you may know how to get some assist there also. Good Luck to you!!

Child support payments - Statute of limitations?

I have hear there is no statute of limitations on Child Support payments. Is this true? Ex owes over $25,000 plus interest since second child reached age of 18 surrounded by 1979.
Answers: Most of the responses so far are dead wrong. It completely depends on the statute in the state contained by which you live. There is not a federal mandate on this, it is a state matter. The best piece you can do is go to the federal child support (OCSE) site:

http://ocse.acf.hhs.gov/ext/irg/sps/sele...

click on your state and dance to Part E. which specifically addresses presumption of payment/statute of limitations.

Most states do own a statute of limitations. If your support is in jeopardy, you necessitate to do everything you can to ensure money is received on your support order to avoid the statute of limitations.
There is none.a friend have his wages garnished and he's presently a grandfather.LOL.

His son is 26.
here is a site for you to check according to your State
why didnt you go after him and collect it years ago?
I be able to invasion my ex's income tax return checks as rash as 1980

http://www.child-support-collections.com...
Nope, there is no statute of limitations. The response from "tuckerlucydog" is incorrect as related to the child collecting support - the child DOES NOT collect support, the other parent does. However, a parent can assign his/her rights to collect support to any other group.

Child support doesn't go away contained by a bankruptcy proceeding any. It is not considered a debt for such a purpose. If your ex dies, you can collect it from the estate.

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