My husband hid a previous marriage from me until we were 11 months into our relationship. I asked him how close he got to his wedding day because he initially said him and his previous partner “were going to get married but didn’t”.

When I asked him, he said “I did get to my wedding day” and said it so casually. I asked what he meant and he said “I did get married but I already told you this”. I was so shocked and told him that before we continue the conversation he has to admit that he has never told me this before because he most certainly had not. He quickly panicked and said “ok I didn’t tell you but I didn’t want to lose you”.

We argued and he made excuses and eventually things calmed down because I became very unwell and I was abroad in his country visiting him, far from home and very unwell. He looked after me and I got better and could travel home.

We spoke over video call about what had happened and he explained his previous marriage was brief and was “horrible” so he didn’t want to talk about it. I respected that and didn’t ask any more. A few months later, now about 18 months into the relationship he told me he had been in South America (he’s not from there himself) studying and met his ex wife there. He said she was 25 years older than him, manipulated him into marriage , stole his passport so he couldn’t leave her, had her brothers threaten to kill him if he ever left her and that’s why he has left all of that behind him and doesn’t want to talk about it. He said he fled the country, went home and never told his family what really happened. I believed him, he was crying whilst telling me the story and I’d never seen him so upset before. I had a bit of doubt but stupidly ignored it.

We got married and applied for a UK spouse visa, I am the British Citizen. Before we did, he said he needs to renew his passport in his country. He then told me they spelt his name wrong on his new passport (a slight mistake of adding a letter). When I told him he needs to go back and sort it out and I questioned him saying it doesn’t sound right at all, he said he did try but they said he needs to change his driving licence, national identity card and birth certificate to match this new name spelling. We applied for the spouse visa and him and his family insisted on using a solicitor. I didn’t see the application until the very end when it was time to sign it. They just asked me to send all my documents etc to them and they gave it to the solicitor. His visa was approved.

He came to the UK and when initially here worked in a minimum wage job but started buying expensive trainers and sports clothes paying it off on Klarna. He then managed to get a different job which was very highly paid (his brother in law helped him get into it with no experience, I assume some dodgy route). He began buying designer clothes spending insane amounts of money on food and clothes. He grew up in poverty and was clearly making the most of his new life.

Fast forward to the spouse visa extension, he didn’t realise we had to apply again and he had to submit evidence all over again. I completed the application this time, no solicitor. He uploaded a patchy looking translated version of his divorce certificate, the stamp of the translator’s name and address was really unclear and blurry. There is no statement as in “I declare that this is a true and accurate translation” the type of statement you usually find on translated official documents. But even more important, this divorce supposedly took place over ten years ago when his documents had the original spelling of his name.

This so called translated document has the new spelling. This “mistake” the passport office made with his name spelling causing him to supposedly change all documents to match it happened 3 years ago and the dodgy looking translated document was done in 2023 before we applied for the visa initially. If I flag this up to the Home Office will they investigate asap? We applied for the extension three weeks ago and are waiting for the outcome. I’m wondering if he ever really got a divorce.

He claims the TLS in his country didn’t give him his divorce certificate back when he gave it to them to scan and he only received the translated version back which is why he could use it for the extension application recently. He is volatile, has a temper and has been intimidating me lately. Basically the mask has come off, so I’m treading carefully but desperately want his visa to be rejected. I’m getting legal advice this week because I want to withdraw but do it safely.

I'm looking for some help here because I'm struggling with PostNL. A month ago I moved from Amsterdam to Malta and in doing some shipped 3 boxes of belongings from NL to Malta. In these boxes I had my PC, monitor, speak and more importantly, most of my Pokemon Card Collection. Before I get any backlash for not taking my cards with me, I know. I took what I could with me but some of the binders were just too big and so I mailed them with insurance with postNL.

Of my 3 boxes, only 1 of them arrived and it was the one containing my bulk cards. After contacting them many times, postNL have confirmed and admitted to me that the other 2 boxes are considered lost and I have started the tedious process of trying to get money back.

The issue I'm facing is they aren't accepting the proof I gave them of what cards were inside the boxes which is 2 .csv exports from the Collectr App and the Dex app because they aren't invoices and they want invoices for my cards (which obviously don't exist because, cards).

Has anyone faced an issue like this and can offer any help or advice on what to do?

Hi everyone, can I bring 10 cans of nicotine pouches from Spain to Italy (20 pouches per can, so 200 pouches in total), with each pouch containing 20 mg of nicotine, without any problems? I know that in Italy the maximum would be 16.6 mg per pouch, but as far as I understand, this only applies to commercial sales, right? I’ll be travelling by GNV (Grandi Navi Veloci) ferry.

Hi everyone,
I am looking for legal advice or insights regarding an assault I suffered in Poland outside a nightclub.
The facts in brief: 1. A young man was screaming and pushing and wanting to fight my brother that was trying to getting Far from him, I rushed to his aid and pushed the aggressor away to get him far.
2. Immediately afterwards, a girl from their group sprayed pepper spray in my brother's face without any reason.
3. Reacting to the attack, I got scared ( I know was a mistake) and I thought a glass bottle that was on the ground, hitting the shoulder of a young man without causing him any injury or damage.
4. They came 6 guys that wanted to attack me and 1 man from their group then threw me to the ground from behind. They tried to spray me again while I was down, but my girlfriend shielded me with her body.
5. Injuries sustained: Two broken front teeth, nasal trauma, and facial injuries (all documented in an ER report).
6. The incident took place on the sidewalk by the entrance. The club's bouncers witnessed it without intervening.
Current status:
I have medical reports and invoices.
I have sent a formal email to the venue requesting that they preserve the external CCTV footage, alleging security negligence.
I am consulting a lawyer regarding my position before filing a formal complaint.
My questions:
7. Legal risk: Could pushing the young man to defend my brother and subsequently throwing the bottle (without causing injury) result in me being considered at fault (e.g., *udział w bójce* / involvement in a brawl), or does the beating I suffered clearly establish me as the primary victim?
8. Venue liability: Can we hold the club liable for the total negligence regarding security on the sidewalk outside their premises? 9. ⁠CCTV and Compensation: What is the fastest way to have the police secure the video footage and to recover substantial dental expenses and compensation for non-pecuniary damage?
Thanks to anyone who can help me!

Please don’t judge my age, since I haven’t had a lot of experience in relationships and also have social anxiety. We are in Spain.

I (30F) started seeing a guy (36M) about a month ago). We met through instagram dm’s. He was randomly messaging me for months and I didn’t reply because I didn’t know who he was.

So boredom got me and I decide to text him back and we started talking for a month. I start to like him because he was well spoken, hardworking and many other things I appreciate in a person.

After a month of talking we decide to meet. We went for a drink and, an hour in, he wants to start kissing me with tongue and touching me and I am not comfortable and really nervous. Then we went to his car, not gonna lie, I did feel attracted but at the same time he was giving me the creeps. We start kissing and I give in. And the he pulls down his pants and I freaked out because I thought he was gonna force me to suck his and I said “NO”. So he takes my hand and leads me to give him a handjob and I’m not comfortable still but I didn’t do anything to stop him.

So after that, we went to a couple more dates, and eventually ended up having sex three of those dates. We talked about using condoms specially since we are not a couple yet. And he brought them.

One of those occasion, we used all the condoms he had brought and then he wants to continue fingering me and obviously I’m with my eyes closed focused and then suddenly I feel something different and it was him penetrating me with his bare penis and I couldn’t do anything to get him off me specially since he was holding my wrists. He didn’t ask me beforehand :( I asked why’d he do that, and he just said “I felt like I trust you”. Wtf? (He ended up pulling out btw, but those were my ovulations days)

Now since thursday (last time we were together) he is been ignoring me and ghosting (I know he is interested and seeing someone new).

I feel fucking devastated, guilty, ashamed, I hate myself because I let this person do this to me. I literally took a shower and wanted to rip my skin off. I feel dirty.

Now I’m scared of an unwanted pregnancy (specially since I was literally ovulating those days) or sti, so scared of him giving me hiv or something else? I feel like my life has been ruined. Is this rape? Should I report this? How can I prove he did this?

Hi everyone, I found this website called Snussie that sells nicotine pouches at really low prices. The company is based in the Czech Republic. Can I order the pouches without any issues, or are there any limits on the quantity or the amount of nicotine per pouch? The destination is Spain.

I (27F) live in NY. 10 years ago my father passed away and left me his apartment in Via Garcia de Arousa, Spain. One of my cousin's informed me that my other cousin was squatting on my property. They are all much older and do very well for themselves, but my uncle was holding the key to the apartment, and I guess at some point they decided to use it.

They started a lawsuit against me, claiming that this is not my apartment (even though it was left to me in my father's will) and have even gone as far as to falsify documents that it sold (even though my father already passed) and have forged wills that are even government notarized. I was also working with a lawyer and found out recently that she was friends with them, and their lawyer.

I'm getting nervous because the 10-year anniversary of my father's death is coming up in October, and if they can prove that they have inhabited the apartment since then, they have legal rights to the property. I barely have money to fly out there, let alone to hire a lawyer. If anyone has any advice on what legal actions I can take, how I should go about hiring someone for the lawsuit, or even financial advice, I would greatly appreciate it.

Not sure if this is a weird one.

For the 4th time now, I’ve accidentally been sent emails from a solicitor that clearly contains information I should not be privy to.
Their client essentially has the same name as me, so sending correspondence to the wrong email is an easy mistake to make, however this is now the 4th time this has happened.

Each time I’ve responded to the solicitor privately and in good faith to let them know of their mistake. I say privately because each time I’ve been copied into the emails alongside other people who I presume are involved in this case.
To be clear: I’m not involved in this case whatsoever, I do not know anybody involved and I never contacted this firm.

I’ve not responded this time but I’m getting a bit concerned. Should I find out who the governing body is and report it? If I report it, should I inform the solicitors of it? Should I let their clients know?
I assume I have nothing to be concerned about personally, it’s purely accidental but it’s so sloppy and I keep receiving things I should not receive so I’m wondering what the right course of action is.

For context, I’m a French national, based I the UK, and the firm is based in Switzerland.

My ex-husband is doing various tricks for showing the least amount of imposable income. He has deals with his boss, like getting a company car for exchange of his salary increase, etc.

Next to his full time work in France, he started to work in Saudi Arabia, this money he is not declaring in France, he has an account in his home-country, which is Lebanon. Our daughter and I are living in an Easter European country. How can I make sure that I get a fair revision of the monthly pension?

Hi! Sorry if this is not the right place for this. I received a job offer in the Netherlands, but I had a few specific questions that I'd rather discuss with a labor lawyer first before sharing details here. Do you happen to have any recommendations for a good lawyer, or does anyone know where I can look reliably? Thanks in advance for the help!

hi everyone. I'm writing here because I need help with a situation im struggling to get out. so I'm going to be a little vulnerable here: about 5 months ago, a girl who was my friend at the time tried to rape me. I have very little evidence I can turn over to the police to file a report, and I don't know what to do. without proof that she confesses to what she did, the report is as if it were worthless. can anyone give me advice on how to get her to confess or get more evidence? maybe even through a friend? genuinely

Divorce

I am dutch, married to a polish guy by blood but on paper Austrian (austria doesn't do double citizenship). I am a stay at home mom to our 7 month old daughter. Our marriage is doing really bad and at this point a divorce is likely. I am seeking advice how to best represent myself without any means to money and not being able to speak the language. I am desperate, any guidance in some direction would be extremely appreciated.

Edit: we are living in Poland

I’m flying from Berlin to Mumbai via Baku on Azerbaijan Airlines on 10 September, all on one ticket/PNR.

Original itinerary:
J2 64: BER 11:35 → GYD 18:05
J2 59: GYD 19:30 → BOM 01:25
Connection: 85 minutes

Modified itinerary:
J2 64: BER 12:05 → GYD 18:35
J2 59: GYD 18:50 → BOM 01:25
Connection: only 15 minutes

AZAL made this change four days before travel. The onward flight is scheduled to depart just 15 minutes after the first flight lands, so this does not appear operationally possible.

I have called AZAL’s Azerbaijan headquarters/international helpline and emailed WeCare, the helpdesk, and every customer-support address I could find. It has now been more than 12 hours without any response. After reading similar experiences on Trustpilot, Reddit, and elsewhere, I’m not confident that email support will resolve this before departure.

I’m going to the AZAL/ground-handler desk at Berlin Brandenburg Airport today, 6 September. What exactly should I ask them to do or document? Should I request an “involuntary rerouting/reprotection due to a schedule change,” ask for the station or duty manager, and insist on a confirmed workable itinerary to Mumbai without paying a fare difference?

If they refuse, should I request written confirmation of the refusal and an involuntary full refund? I paid through PayPal, but I don’t want to cancel voluntarily, become a no-show, or start a dispute in a way that weakens my rights.

Has anyone dealt with AZAL or its staff at BER? Any precise wording or documents I should request at the desk today would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice on how to handle a situation involving someone based in Germany who scammed me out of money I earned.

I live in Tunisia and work as a freelancer. Because of issues receiving direct international payments, I asked a close friend living in Germany to receive the payment for my freelance work on my behalf and send it to me. Once the money arrived in his account, he cut off all contact, blocked me everywhere, and kept the funds. (i have reported him to the police online but haven't had a response for a month)

Here is the information I have:

• Evidence: Chat logs, proof of the freelance work completed, and transaction records showing the money was sent to his account.
• His Info: I know his full legal name, his photos, and the city he currently lives in (though I don't have his exact street address).

Given that I am outside Germany and outside the EU, what are my realistic options to address this?

Hello, everyone im writing from Bulgaria. For almost 20 years, my father has suffered from a serious condition where his blood is naturally way too thick, meaning he requires strict, lifelong prescription anticoagulants to prevent fatal clots. Recently, two different doctors inexplicably told him to completely stop his vital medication and just take ordinary aspirin instead. From a medical standpoint, this makes no sense because aspirin only targets platelets and has zero ability to manage major clotting disorders or stop deep vein thrombosis.
Right after he stopped his real medication, terrifying physical symptoms appeared. Both of his legs turned dark blue and swelled up massively, which are obvious warning signs of severe blood flow blockage and dangerous clot formation. Furthermore, one of my father’s closest friends is a pharmaceutical professor at the medical university, and he explicitly warned us that stopping this prescribed regimen was a life-threatening mistake.
Despite this expert warning and the obvious physical evidence of his blue, swollen legs, the doctors casually brushed off our concerns, insisted he was doing fine, and completely refused to run deeper tests or put him back on his necessary medication. Now, the inevitable consequence of their poor judgment has happened, and he is crashing in the ICU. To make matters worse, the hospital staff has been unhelpful and opaque, withholding critical updates about what is actually going on.
I am only 18 years old, facing the devastating possibility of losing my only parent and sole provider because of sheer professional negligence. Do I have valid legal grounds to initiate a lawsuit against these practitioners, and what specific steps should I take in Bulgaria to hold them accountable

My mother married a French man after I was born, and he adopted me in the US at age six. The judgment severs all ties with my biological father while my mother stays my mother, so it should be plénière-equivalent under article 370-5. It was never registered in France, so I'm filing the requête en transcription at the parquet de Nantes now, with my father as requester.

Two questions for anyone who has done this.

1: The form has two columns for a requesting couple and a "mariés le" line, but only my dad is the adopter. Did you fill in just the adoptive parent and leave the second column and the marriage line blank?

2: Did the procureur question the biological parent's consent? In my case the court found my biological father could not be located despite diligent efforts and waived service, and my mother consented by affidavit.

Also, how long did the parquet take, and was the CNF or passport straightforward afterward?

Located in France.

Posting this de-identified because it's still ongoing, but I've run out of ideas

and I'd rather hear from people who've been through something similar.

I do covers. I sing them myself and I produce them. For this one I bought a

proper cover licence through DistroKid before releasing anything, so the

composition side was handled the way it's supposed to be.

What happened, in order:

- Late January — I post the cover on my YouTube channel and my Facebook page.

My own recording, my voice, my production. The audio carries my spoken brand

watermark at 0:02 and again at 2:47. The video runs 4:53.

- Early February, about a week later — The original artist's label puts out an

"Acoustic" version of that same song on streaming, through a major distributor.

It runs 4:52. It has my watermark in it, at the same two timestamps. They

took the audio off my Facebook post and released it as their own master.

Crucially, this lands on streaming platforms *before* my own distribution went

live.

- A few days after that — That recording, now sitting in Content ID as a

reference, claims my video. Monetisation disabled for me. Ads presumably still

running, to their benefit.

- Mid-February — My own DistroKid release finally goes live. Different master:

4:31, no watermark.

- Spring — I dispute. Rejected. I appeal, citing the watermark timestamps.

Rejected again.

- Same period — I report the track to Spotify and to the distributor's legal

team.

- Then — My video is deleted and I get a copyright strike. Within 24 hours,

Spotify removes their track after investigating my infringement claim. It's

disabled and unplayable there now.

- Since — Three counter-notifications filed, three different framings. All

three rejected with the identical boilerplate: "we could not confirm its

validity." The distributor never even received them — YouTube refused to

forward any of them.

Where I stand:

The evidence is about as clean as it gets. My watermark is inside their

commercial release. Their version is 4:52, my original post is 4:53, my own later

release is 4:31 with no watermark at all. There is no source anywhere for that

watermarked audio except my own publication. Spotify looked at exactly this and

pulled the track in under a week.

The part that stings: because they got it onto streaming before I did, their

reference landed in the matching systems first. So the timeline in the machines

says they were there first, even though the watermark proves the opposite.

YouTube's counter-notification form seems built for "I had the right to use this

content" — fair use, licence, exception. Mine is "this content IS mine, they took

it." That doesn't appear to have a box, and I suspect that's why it keeps

bouncing without a human reading past the first line.

I emailed the distributor's takedown team with all of the above. No reply so far.

The video had a few hundred thousand views. The strike expires by itself in about

80 days, but the video stays deleted unless they retract.

What I'm asking:

1. Has anyone actually got a counter-notification through on an *ownership*

   dispute rather than a fair use one? Any wording that worked?

2. Is there a route to a human at YouTube for this? The automated review is

   clearly never reading past the first line.

3. Both the distributor and I are in the EU. Is a lawyer's formal notice under

   national law (performer's rights + phonogram producer's rights) the realistic

   move, rather than fighting inside the US DMCA framework?

4. Anything I'm missing entirely?

Happy to answer questions. I've kept every email and every claim reference, and

my source files are all timestamped.

They have stolen my ID with the intention since the bag where you I had everything appeared intact and they only took the document.

Now after reporting I’m worried about what they can do on my behalf.

I was traveling through Europe when that happened so in theory they could do paperwork in my name for any European country. What recommendations do you give me to minimize or protect me against any risk of impersonation or fraud?

I am creating a .gy domain hosted from Latvia as a Latvian resident. It is a personal, non-profit writing project & I figured it'd be fun to try adding YouTube embeds of official song uploads as optional background music for some of the pages in the story.

I've been reading the Terms of Service regarding YouTube's API Services regarding the usage of embeds and have stumbled upon a fairly vague rule that also seems likely to affect my usage of the service. The Additional Prohibitions section in the Developer Policies contains the following prohibition:
9. create, include, or promote features that play content, including audio or video components, from a background player, meaning a player that is not displayed in the page, tab, or screen that the user is viewing;

How would this affect a regular website with any embed that does not deliberately pause itself the moment a user switches tabs? Does this not theoretically count as a player that is not displayed in the tab that the user is viewing?

By default, I would assume the conservative position and implement site-wide behavior to pause the embed on the user tabbing out of the site, but this also affects the standard/default share embed function available under any YouTube video with embedding enabled, so would all default embeds also be subject to legal scrutiny, or am I just missing something?

An adult U.S. citizen in our family will visit Campania from September 19–26 and Rome from September 26–28. They are an established medical-cannabis patient in the United States. They will not import cannabis, and we are not asking how to obtain it unlawfully. We understand that their U.S. authorization is not an Italian prescription.

Our research suggests there may be two different systems: reimbursed regional treatment involving a therapeutic plan, and a private, self-paid magistral preparation prescribed on a nonrepeatable Italian prescription under Law 94/1998. We need to clarify whether the latter is legally available to a nonresident visitor.

Can a tourist lawfully book a private consultation with an Italian-licensed physician and, if the physician finds it medically appropriate, receive such an Italian prescription for dispensing by an authorized compounding pharmacy? Does the patient need a codice fiscale, temporary domicile, or registration with the Italian health service? What foreign medical documentation is legally required or normally accepted? After dispensing, what prescription copy, receipt, or other documentation should the patient keep while possessing the medicine in Italy?

Please reply publicly. Citations to Italian legislation or official guidance would be especially helpful.

So I’m 19 and I got arrested for harassment allegations. I’m on bail currently. Early October I have to return to the police station to find out if it’s going to court or bails being extended or I’m being NFA’d or whatever.

Before I was arrested I applied for a life changing acting role over sea’s. (The Role will be for 2 months) I’ve found out today I’ve officially got the role. It’s an amazing amount of money and will be an amazing credit for me to have as an actor. But I’m being flown out literally the end of September like a week before I have to return to the station.

If it was a small role that didn’t pay well I would be disappointed but would reject it. But this could make a huge difference in my life career wise and financially. Im doing university online and could barely afford it. This would pay it off X5 like.

I don’t know if there’s any possible reason I could either move it to the week beforehand or 2 months after.

I was arrested before and every time it was a quick pop in and out they gave me a letter and a new date and time for the next date of what was going on.

Is it possible I could ask my parents to go in while I’m on FaceTime or something if the date can’t be changed? or are they strict about “this is the date you have to come in there’s no changing it” I’m really panicking because obviously this would change my life.

Hello, I frequently play on sweepstakes website such as stake and have been fairly successful. Unfortunately this hobby also comes with the cost of discovering sketchy offshore casinos such as ACEBET. Acebet did not like the way i played (advantage blackjack only) so they decided they would steal my money ($2,000). So far they have been successful as my credit card chargebacks have failed. I’m now on a journey of trying to have a private company serve them in their “country of business” location in Cyprus. Surprise surprise they are never at the office. It’s simply a shell company to protect them from meeting their obligations. Without being able to serve them how am I able to try to get my money back?

I’m an HR administrator at a mid-sized tech company based in the US and we have a developer in France who has been working with us for around 8 months as an independent contractor. They control their own hours, use their own equipment and invoice us monthly. The last few months, however, have been different. Their manager started including them in the regular team meetings, giving them on-going work and the responsibility of supervising some new team developers.

They started threatening to turn us in for worker misclassification under French labor laws. However, we were considering formally classifying them as an employee rather than keeping them as a contractor, since they’ve already taken on responsibilities that are closer to what our employees do.

What would be the proper way for a US company to make that transition? I’m not sure what we would need to do to make the change properly so I'm hoping you could give me some advice.