@DownYonder - hope your dog turns a corner and feels better soon.
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When we present our USAA card, we are usually asked “Did you serve?” If hubby is with me, he answers in the affirmative. And we are then usually asked if we would like the military discount, and then asked for his military ID.
If I am by myself and asked “Did you serve?,” I say “No” - which is accurate because I myself did not serve.
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I’m aware that there are “online data search places” to which you can pay $9.95 for a report on Ms. Jane Doe, and sniff around criminal records, house deeds, addresses, phone numbers, marriage and divorce records, and bankruptcies.
Why are you doing such searches on Lauren Kanarek’s sisters?
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She denied calling CPS but I believe she knew if she reported false allegations of child abuse to SS, CPS would investigate. I’d say with her CPS searches documented in the criminal trial, she saw that false allegations could be charged criminally with CPS and therefore, went the route of SS. I also think she deliberately said minors were involved because SS would not likely act otherwise.
The form that had the check mark indicating either sexual or physical child abuse was an SS report.
The prosecutor was asked if there was ever any proof of child abuse and he blatantly said “no, there was no proof of child abuse” in the 48 Hours interview. Reporting child abuse while there is no proof of child abuse is a false allegation of child abuse. Simple as that.
Here is the thing. Everyone knows for a fact you are not a legal or mental health professional. You do not know for a fact who is a legal or mental health professional in these forums. You just hope to claw everyone else down to your own level of ignorance.
There really is nothing wrong with people who qualify for military discounts to ask for military discounts.
Being a military spouse or child of an active duty service member is incredibly hard. When my husband was active duty for many years, it dictated my entire life. Where I went to college, what jobs I had access to, where I lived, how long I lived there, what I did with horses, our income, my husband’s time including deployments, etc. I also earned an award by the USMC because of my length of marriage and my husband’s length of service. The military puts a lot of appreciation and emphasis on a service member’s family because they are the Marine or soldier’s main support system and they recognize how difficult it can be to be married or a child of someone who is active duty.
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And if any of the wedding guests wanted to Venmo money to fund plane tickets to Bora Bora or contribute to a down payment of house instead of giving them an Instapot as a wedding gift, so what?
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This makes it all make a little more sense, actually.
They do not have hearings every day so their other days can be spent reading stuff.
I, clearly wrongly, assumed they had to sit in front of the room being a judge five days per week, basically all day.
Thank you for clarifying that.
I thought part of signing for your lottery winnings is agreeing for your information to be used in advertisements. It seems weird that someone could win a big enough lottery award to pay for six horses at a fancy barn and not working for this amount of time but not be easily found when googling.
The tax topic does make me wonder something. How much money can someone gift to someone else and person receiving does not have to claim any income? Say I really like @ekat and I have so much money that I do not know what to do with it (laugh), so I decide that I want Ekat to have the ability to just enjoy her life and not have to work so I promise her $XXX,XXX per year to do with as she wants.
Does @ekat have to claim that as income? Or is that just a gift that is not reportable?
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It is Supreme Court precedent. Beard vs. United States 1895 and has been upheld several times since.
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I got my USAA account many years ago, and did not serve. I think that I just had to give information about my father to qualify. I don’t know if they contacted him or not (because it was a long time ago.)
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So scary! Jingles for your dog (and your family)!!!
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More than enough evidence to know this is the case. The pan over of the form asked if authorities had been notified already.
As for deliberately mentioning minors, she explicitly admitted to this when she said she didn’t realize SS only cared about minors, so she told them about how MB didn’t mean to act that way towards the kids, he just didn’t know any better. I doubt SS would have called CPS over a little yelling or being a little mean.
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This makes total sense to me. It is like I tried to compare it to read code books. It is not simple as just read this document and you know all about it. All of the qualifying pieces have to be understood.
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The giver actually typically is responsible for the tax. I think current law allows you to gift $16,000 tax free, and then over and above that there is a scale and the tax owed goes from 18% up to 40% depending upon the size of the gift.
If LK was gifted a large amount, however, it will beg questions as to the source of the gift. And could trigger an audit for her or the giver, depending on size and how long ago the gift occurred.
If she invested the gift in a non tax protected manner, she will owe applicable capital gains, and that should be reflected on her annual returns.
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LK also failed to report potential child abuse to the police if she were truly concerned as indicated by the false allegations (no proof existed) she filed in the SS report.
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Making use of certain elements of a persons digital footprint is not permitted for the purposes of employment, or for the purposes of real estate contracts, including rental contracts.
Please explain why the “digit footprint” of Lauren Kanarek’s sisters, including their preferred honeymoon destination and financing thereof, is at all pertinent to this case and this discussion.
Such “researching” of someone’s “digital footprint” is one element of cyberstalking.
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@lazaret Is there going to be a hearing? For whose benefit are the words “do not come to the court house because no oral argument has been requested. The courts decision will be provided to you” ?
What a very LK-esque thing to say.
LK would constantly accuse others of stalking in her posts on the forums. I found it incredibly ironic since she did have an actual history of stalking and harassment.
To verify my thinking, I searched the forum for how many times LaLa mentioned stalking, including accusing others of stalking in her posts on COTH. She mentioned it in 14 different post.
Just taking note at the irony and the uncanny resemblance.
Half halting myself to other things now.
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You can give me $16,000 that’s not reportable annually. There’s more to that when you start looking at lifetime gift tax exemptions, but for fun, I’ll be happy with $16,000. Thank you very much!
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Lk has claimed (adamantly) that the money is hers. Could be an inheritance, could be a lottery win, could be a payoff from another lawsuit, or a big insurance settlement (wasn’t she in an auto accident some years back), or savings from former employment (I know some scoff at the idea that she ever “worked” but there have been statements here and there that she had been employed in the hospitality industry at one time).
And I am a bit in shock to learn that her sisters were crowdsourcing funds to pay for their honeymoons and houses. I mean - Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot? Who does that? 
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It s not always bridezilla.
When my younger daughter was planning her wedding the groom’s mom had all sorts of plans that didn’t include paying for any of it. So YD had 3 weddings, one in front of his mom’s cleric, one at the courthouse and one in St Lucia, which we paid for. We offered to give them plane tickets but they declined. We still have not met them. It’s been about 15 years.
To give them credit they did take care of the grand children so she could help me when DH had his heart surgery.
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