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Got a legal question that keeps nagging at you? You can suggest it here. This is not legal advice, and it is not a place to send your case for review — we do not take clients or advise on individual matters. What we do is look for topics that would help a lot of people. If we take a request, we anonymize the situation you describe and publish a general explainer anyone can read. One good question, many people helped.

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