Lucas Wheatcroft

I am curious about determining if I have Jewish heritage, but I was born in Marghita, county of Bihor, Romania in 1997 unto a woman that, according to adoption records, is of Hungarian ethnicity born in 1971; she died in 1999, cause unknown; social background- broken family. My name given at birth was Laszlo Krisztian Hamza, but it was amended under honorable ruling. The biological father was not typewritten into the birth certificate, but documentation suggests that the mother had a love affair with an adult male who did not recognize me as his child. Marghita used to be a sprawling Jewish community in northwest Romania during the early-to-mid 20th century, with approximately half of the city being Jewish. I was adopted in July of 2000 and currently study pre-law at Hot Springs, Ark. The adoptive parents have no connection to myself at all, my biological mother has passed away, and we no nothing about the biological father, so my contacts are severely limited.

Many people say I have Jewish traits, like the tan skin tone and "nose". We have no conclusive records to describe my maternal and paternal lineage, but I am inquiring on how I could find out my lineage as I feel that it is important to my personal and social identity. Ancestry.com seems like a good option, but the only drawback is that I'm Eastern-European and have very limited documentation collated to the Romanian adoption decree.

Any suggestions and assistance would be deeply appreciated.

Thank you,

Lucas

As you can see by the title, this is one of millions of Americans' barking "Our health care is so friggin' expensive!" I went to an internal medicine physician at Hot Springs, Ark. for a physical examination and physician's order for my annual testicular ultrasound (I had an orchidopexy over three years ago, so I get my sonogram done each year to make sure I'm still good).

The Dr. poked me around a bit and we spoke for about twenty minutes, she read the letter from my mental health professional and she wrote me a prescription for spironolactone 25mg/ day (which I think will cost me $10 at Walmart for my 90-day supply). The diagnosis code is ICD-9-302.85- gender identity disorder in adults.

I'm a full-time college student (moved to America in May of 2016) and my parents live in Germany. Dad is the subscriber to the private insurance plan, which is in network with my doctor. At the cashiering office the lady told me that Dr. Lai typed the office visit as a "preventative care" annual examination, so I have no co-pay (no deductible either). Aetna would pay the medical bill fully. I asked, out of curiosity, how much the bill is.

FOR A FIRST-VISIT CONSULTATION, THE BILL IS LIKE A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS!! WHAT??? All the Dr. did was poke me around a bit, measure my blood pressure and temp, weight and height, chat with me for a few minutes, and write a prescription!

How can this be so expensive?? :o (Thank God the insurance pays the invoice in full!)

Hello dear Friends!

As you can tell from the title of the question, I'm 19 years old and I'm studying to become a paralegal in Hot Springs, Ark. I currently have a thin file, so just before Halloween I got my first credit card ever (I know, right, big milestone) and I received my statement in the mail on Friday. The statement balance is $496.02 and payment is due by 5 p.m. on December 19. The provider is State Farm Bank, and State Farm is also my car insurance provider for my 2003 Honda Civic EX.

I am not in the mood to pay interest or fall into the stereotypical American way of late penalties, interest, and bankruptcy, no sir! I want to pay the $496.02. This is my first credit card statement. If I pay it in full, is that a good thing? I figure that if I pay it in full, then the credit bureaus will see that I'm a good person and I can pay for what I've used my credit card for.

Or should I not pay it in full? The minimum payment is $40.00, but I'd much rather pay it in full. Can you guys give me some advice? Should I pay the bill in full? Or what??

Hi, friends,

I have felt differently for years and wanted to go on hormones a few years ago when I was 16 but my parents refused because they do not support my decision to transition from male to female. I'm 19 and living in Hot Springs, Ark. while I pursue my paralegal studies but my parents live in Germany. I am under my parent's privatized Aetna insurance programme and I want to begin seeing a psychologist or therapist to begin my medical transition (hormones, and then sex reassignment surgery - but that comes later).

My parents support me financially (rent, bills, tuition, etc.) but I fear that they will cut me off completely if I begin seeing a gender therapist or taking feminizing hormones because, like I mentioned, they do not support my decision to transition and want me to transition only after I am no longer dependent on them, but it's tough and I feel that my gender dysphoria strongly affects my life. Despite being an honor student, a notary public, and ambitious with my legal career, living life as a male (my birth sex) is like death to me, and my parents took me to therapists during my teen years to address my major depression and anxiety.

Would I be able to have my insurance help out some with the therapist fees without my parents finding out, or having knowledge that I'm seeing someone, or should I just pay fully out-of-pocket and not tell the therapist that I actually do have insurance...?

I feel at a crossroads right now and I don't know what to do... :(

Dear Friends,

I would like some insightful feedback for my proposed synopsis for my fiction novel. The text is typed in the German language but I have produced an interpretation of the text.

(Translation from German)--

S Y N O P S I S:

An attorney must decide whether to sacrifice his career or moral principles when he is appointed in the judicial system to defend a criminal that had molested him many years ago. In 1973, 9-year old Vasil was molested by his babysitter when his parents were taking a vacation to Südtirol [1]. He suffered from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder during his adolescence but he obtained his Juris Doctoris from the Bucharest Faculty of Law in 1989. Now then, 24 years later, the defendant, Matei, is accused for aggravated sexual assault toward a young woman, Mirela, and the county appoints Vasil as defense attorney for said defendant. Will he have the ability to discharge the duties of his office and defend his client, or will he put his career at risk if he refuses to represent his client as an impartial servant in bench trial?[2]

Hello,

A quick summary about myself. I was born in Oradea in 1997 with Romanian citizenship but in 2000 I was adopted and was naturalized as U.S. citizen following the adoption proceedings. I live in Hot Springs, Arkansas and I am studying at college to become a paralegal, but for quite some time I have been contemplating on the possibility of moving to Bucharest in the future once I am independent with my career and no longer supported by my parents.

Would it be an easier process for me to move back home because I am a former Romanian citizenship (and I was born there)? What would I need to go through to establish permanent residency in Romania, and preferably dual citizenship as U.S./ Romania? I am 19 and lived in Germany for over 10 years, if that helps...

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Greetings.

I am inquiring the possibility of requesting in the future that my bank issue a cashier's check to "myself", whereby I would place the non-negotiable instrument under lock and key and cash it in the future. Essentially, it would be like having secured cash in a safe as an instrument that can be cashed later. I have done this recently with a U.S. postal money order without a problem -- I wrote my name in wet, black ink as both the drawer and Payee, and endorsed the money order with my name without any problem. Postal money orders never expire but have a $1,000.00 limit, whereas a cashier's check has no fiscal limit, but will it ever expire?

A bit of clarification would be helpful, thanks very much. A postal money order carries a $1.20 (less than $500 value) or $1.40 (for $500-$1,000), whereas a cashier's check would carry a fee of $7 - $10.

Any thoughts?

Dear Friends,

I am writing to inquire about a 2011 Illinois quarter (U.S. 25 cent coin) that is, I attest to the best of my knowledge and belief, gold-plated. I have spoken with several friends and they have never heard of a "gold quarter", so I infer that the quarter could be worth more than face value.

Does anyone have any opinions?

Thank you,

Lucas :)

Just out of curiosity...

Suppose Charlie is employed at a factory for a specified period, but he's fired without any cause prior to the end of the period. For what could he sue against the employer?

Okay, suppose his job doesn't involve public safety. Can he get discharged simply for refusing a drug test?

Hey, so just a few minutes this ugly cockroach is running around my wall, so I catch it with a large plastic pitcher and the water hot in my sink, turn on the garbage disposal, and flush the cock-roach down the drain, flushing down a tablespoon of dishwasher soap to try to kill it. I didn't see it come up. I put the seal on the hole-thingy so it won't "crawl" up at night if it miraculously survived.

Is it dead?

Cockroaches are so disgusting! :(

Hey,

I have a theoretical question relating to real estate law.

Let's suppose that Bentley is renting out a house for a one-year lease, or a specified period, known as "tenancy for years". The lease fixes the termination date, which is one year from the move-in date. Lets say Bentley moved in on May 20, 2015 but on November 15, 2015, a tornado totally destroyed the house and surrounding homes in the neighborhood. 

Under the common law, what would the results of this event be, and what can be done in Bentley's favor?

Thanks for your help!

To best explain,

I was born a Romanian citizen in 1997 but adopted in 2000 from a couple in Chicago. The adoption followed after foster care and civil proceedings in Oradea and Bucharest. The adoptive father was a naturally-born U.S. citizen, and his wife was a Spain citizen, but she naturalized as a U.S citizen six years ago.

Because of my dad's citizenship and because of the adoption proceedings and judgement, I became a U.S. citizen and lost the Romanian citizenship, but wish to be a dual-citizenship either with Spain or Romania. Could I petition the courts to grant dual citizenship on the grounds of jus sanguinis or residency? I have lived in Germany for 11 years of my life (to-date I am 19), so if neither Spain nor Romania would grant dual citizenship, would Germany do so?

Thank you!

Hello,

I am a stamp collector in Hot Springs, AR, and recently purchased an old check dated October 15, 1872 and drawn by Donohoe, Kelly & Co., Bankers in San Francisco, CA. The payee is "Cash" and the monetary sum is $92.30. The drawer was the company that was later established as Bank of California and later bought by Bank of America.

There is a blue ink date seal on the center of the instrument and the note is in satisfactory condition.

How much do you think this collectible would sell for today? How much would you pay for it?

Hi,

I'm returning home in a week and I'm flying from Frankfurt, Germany, to Chicago, then to Little Rock. I am a U.S. passport holder and probably won't get my passport stamped at Chicago, but I'd really like a passport stamp in my diary as a collectible keepsake - not for fraud, of course. Would the immigration officer affix an ink seal on my diary? I imagine that when I leave the Schengen zone at Frankfurt Airport, I would get an exit stamp on my U.S. passport-- maybe I could also get that exit stamp on my diary for a souvenir of Germany. :)

Hello,

For nearly a 1/2 year I've been seeing a German biblical counselor and we've been discussing the "reasons" that I have this strong "conviction" of gender identity "confusion" and his aim is to help me accept myself as male and appreciate the body that "God gave me", even though now I feel worse than I did a few months ago. He bluntly stated that he doesn't agree with the new modern "idea" that gender and sex are different and that the aim of his therapeutic approach is to make my gender in sync with the birth sex.

I've had depression for years and have been on medication since 11/13, seen a psychiatrist in the ER in 09/13 and have been seeing the German therapist since 07/15, bi-weekly.

I know I am a girl inside and out, but I told him that if I were to never be able to transition, I may commit suicide. I wear some feminine clothes, I put on makeup, I love doing girl stuff, and I plan on seeing an American psychiatrist or physician in Arkansas when I move back to the U.S. this May so that I can start getting serious with my transition.

I'm 18 and my parents selected the therapist I have now, but I don't know if I should quit seeing him (without disappointing my parents). My 23 y/o sister said that I'm full of crap and my 22 y/o brother said that he "will love the person but hate the sin". My parents won't talk about it anymore and they bluntly stated that they will not support my transition or desire to change my body to conform to that of my gender.

Hi,

So I just finished my first semester of college this week at National Park (Hot Springs, Arkansas) and I took 15 credit hours (yeah, a full load with 30 hours/week as a department store cashier) along with three 3.000 credit hours transferred from the English Comp 1 AP exam (carries no GPA points in the transcript, however). Scored an A in medical terminology, A in general psychology, A in info systems I, B in English Comp 2, and a D in algebra (math is tough).

I'm shooting to become a medical doctor and I'm wondering if the 3.2 *** GPA is good... or not so good... I guess a D in algebra is "technically passing"...?

Thanks! ;)

Okay, long story short, I'm transgender male to female and I know it's complex and not common and stuff, but I have a weight on my shoulder and I need a bit of advice. My parents basically found out for themselves about two years that I'm transgender, and at first things didn't go well but it's a bit better at the time. I have a therapist and I'm working on my depression and I'm college student working part-time as a cashier.

I was adopted 15 years ago from Romania and we recently got in touch with my biological brother, whom I've never met. My father booked his flight ticket and he'll be here on December 15, 2015 at Frankfurt, Germany; he leaves on the 23rd. We have so much to catch up on and share, and I want to come out and get the burden off my shoulders, but I'm scared as to how he would react. We've only had a few Skype sessions, that's it-- I don't know if I would scare him away, freak him out, or make him despise him. I also prefer men, so like I'm gay, but inside I'm a girl and I don't know if he would be scared of me. He's a Christian missionary (I think he's heterosexual), also taking online college courses, and teaching English around Asia.

I don't know if my parents would want Alex to find out, how we would react, or if he would call me crazy and talk bad about me to his family. (We were both adopted from different families.)

I really need some advice...

Hi,

Say that equation A is x + y = 1 and equation B is y = x^2 - 1. How would you write the second equation exactly as equation A, so that the equals sign is on the right side of the equation, rather than on the left?

Thanks!

Hello,

I am an American living in Wiesbaden, Germany, and I'm wondering if I can have a German notary public notarize my document. My paper is in the English language, do I need to translate it into German, or can I just leave it in English and type up a German jurat/ acknowledgement on the bottom of the page (on Microsoft Word) and have the notary do his/her thing from there?

If I have to type up a German acknowledgement for the notary, what should it read at? Can I find some sample acknowledgements online and just copy those into the form?

I know it's a bit expensive, but I need the paper notarized. Does anyone know how things are for Americans getting their stuff notarized by a German notary public?

Thanks! :)

We were both born to the same woman, father(s) unknown, in Romania and adopted by two different families (each with different adoption services). My adoptive family went through Uniting Families Foundation (State of Illinois) and my brother was adopted by a family from the State of Maine. We tried contacting the managing director of my adoption agency, but she had no luck in digging up whatever she tried, and we're stuck. We had the same Romanian surname at birth, but now we are in separate families.

I would really appreciate any advice or recommendations in how I can find my brother. I was adopted 15 years ago, so it's been a very long time. I don't even know the guy, we think his first name at birth is/was Alehandru, but the adoptive family likely changed it through the international adoption process. For myself, the birth name Laszlo was later changed to Lucas through the Illinois court system, so this makes it much more difficult. Should I contact my former foster mother and see if she knows anything? Or would I just be better of writing to the State of Bihor (Romania) and Adoptions Committee of Bucharest to see if they can dig anything up from my brother's adoption decree?

Thanks! :)