S/O What is the most juicy thing you have found out via Maryland Court database

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, someone, post the link please!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=maryland+court+databse

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Anonymous wrote:It’s convenient to use this database to make sure a contractor you’re planning to hire hasn’t been sued by past customers. I also used it when a guy my husband wanted to go into business with seemed shady. Turned out, he was.

We used it at the office to find out why a job applicant had a ten year gap in his resume.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally think a lot of the information the database list should be discontinued or minimized. The state should not be willing to satisfy your desire to know my business.

Keep your nose clean and you have nothing to be worried about.

[Anonymous]

Coworker’s husband had a child outside of their marriage. He has had several DUIs (and drives trains for WMATA). Their house just got foreclosed.

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Next door neighbor's divorce was caused by alcholism and an affair. The street was told that everything was amicable and peachy despite the one spouse literally throwing out the others stuff out on the lawn the day they moved out.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s convenient to use this database to make sure a contractor you’re planning to hire hasn’t been sued by past customers. I also used it when a guy my husband wanted to go into business with seemed shady. Turned out, he was.

We used it at the office to find out why a job applicant had a ten year gap in his resume.

And?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I personally think a lot of the information the database list should be discontinued or minimized. The state should not be willing to satisfy your desire to know my business.

Keep your nose clean and you have nothing to be worried about.

I disagree. A person can get caught up in something that ends up being completley unfounded. Even in cases where it's unfounded the case remains for all to see. Also, divorces are posted, which has nothing to do with a dirty nose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I personally think a lot of the information the database list should be discontinued or minimized. The state should not be willing to satisfy your desire to know my business.

Keep your nose clean and you have nothing to be worried about.

I disagree. A person can get caught up in something that ends up being completley unfounded. Even in cases where it's unfounded the case remains for all to see. Also, divorces are posted, which has nothing to do with a dirty nose.

Although, when I looked up my emotionally abusive ex-boyfriend 10 years after our split, I could see that he had been married and divorced and that his ex-wife accused him of physical abuse and that he failed to pay child support and several other outstanding disputes for non-paent. At the time he owed me tens of thousands in a swcind mortgage note I took as a buyout on the house we had owned together.

Knowing that my suspicions were correct that he would eventually hit me if I had stayed actually resolved a lot of trauma for me. Same for knowing that I wasn't the only one he had stiffed. He was a bad person; it wasn't me, as he continually tried to convince me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These things don't come up in google?

No they don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The best was my mom claiming she never got a speeding ticket and there she was. She tried to appeal it so it got listed. Lots of other stuff. Always use it for contractors, teachers, and anyone that impacts our child/us.

Speeding tickets don’t show up here.

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My ex went to prison for a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad thing.

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Link for FX?

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DS’s teacher lost custody of her own kids. Red flag.

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Does anyone have the link for Virginia?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have the link for Virginia?

In Virginia, you have to search by county and it's a huge PITA unless you know where the specific crime occurred (and some counties, like Fairfax, don't keep all of their databases online). Maryland has the entire state database online in one place and you can just search by last name or business name and all kinds of stuff comes up.

I found out that a guy who was trying to pose as an upstanding businessman and investor had over $1.5M in tax liens against him and multiple lawsuits for bad business practices. Also, one of his closest business partners had a domestic violence conviction and a pending child abuse charge.