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I gave birth to my son a couple weeks ago. My son would definitely not be here had I not been in a hospital when the shit hit the fan, and there's a very good chance I wouldn't either. He's doing well in NICU now. I skipped this case.

So my husband and I were in a very similar situation with a neighbor. The neighbor assaulted my husband, who was on our property. She had an attorney at the restraining order hearing and my husband did not. The restraining order wasn't granted, in part because the judge claimed that restraining orders were only granted if we were afraid the other party was going to, like, attempt to kill us with a knife and in part because my husband couldn't get the video of the assault admitted. The prosecutor brought criminal charges against my neighbor, and she ended up pleading out. She agreed to stay away as part of the assault plea, but this was after the restraining order was denied. She has since moved. So I can definitely believe that no restraining order was granted, despite the facts of the case. If the defendant showed up in a suit and sounded reasonable, that was probably enough in my jurisdiction.

Flooded basements are common around here. Before I bought my house, there were water issues, and the seller installed a French drain around most of the edges. There was already a sump pump. We then had issues around the one edge (about 2 feet) that wasn't French drained about 3 years later. We got the water remediation company to come back to fix that under warranty and thus far things have been good. The whole thing cost about $5K I think, but it can be done. I should add that my basement is tiny (12 feet by about 35 feet). I'm sure this would cost more with a normal size basement.

God, I hope so. What a slimeball. Her name was Martha White-Smith so it won't be easy to google.

The first Saturday night case I got featured Ms. Summers-Tengberg, whose 83-year-old mother apparently had her daughter when she was about -2 years old. She was suing a neighbor of her mom's for supposedly stalking her mom. Since things seemed pretty weird, I googled her name and found youtube videos someone with a similar name had posted about a *different* neighbor harassing her 83-year-old mother in the same city. Hmm. Poor mom.