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Is harrasment of the mentally disabled against the law?

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I have a friend who is bipolar. Her daughter, 21 years of age, is harrassing her about money that the daughter feels that the mother owes her. It's almost extortion, seemingly. State in question is Tennessee. Please only answer if you are educated in the facts of the law.

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  1. I'm very sorry that your friend is bipolar.  She doesn't deserve this from her daughter.  Is it bad enough for a restraining order?  If it is true harassment she can report it to the police, get a police report and then a restraining order.  her daughter will not be allowed to contact her in any way or come any where near her.  This is the only legal solution.


  2. well, when Bush was Governor of Texas he felt it was best to execute them~!

  3. Harassment is against the law. Collecting on a debt is not. Nothing you have said supports your charge of "almost extortion".

  4. Harassment is against the law.  I don't know if bipolarism qualifies as mentally disabled, more like emotionally troubled.  At any rate, harassment is illegal.

  5. Doesn't matter what state it is, or what mental condition someone is in, it IS "harassment" if somone tells someone to leave them alone but they don't.  Period.  That is the definition.  And she can press charges.  But in my opinion, she should also make sure that if she owes her the money she needs to make some kind of an adult arrangement with her to pay her what she owes her becuase, bi-polar or not, she can be taken to small claims court if it is proven that she owes her money.  

  6. Leave those liberals alone!

  7. Harrassment of any kind is illegal, what you need to find out if the behavior exhibited falls under Tenn. definition of harrassment.

    http://www.lawinfo.com/attorney/Harassme...

    You may be able to find what you're looking for here.

  8. any type of harassment is against the law

    but its not against the law to say something about someone

    thats because of the freedom of speech

    the only thing that someone can say that is against the law is something referring to assassination of a politician, like the president

  9. yes, and she can get into alot of trouble for this!!!!!!!
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