The law of every state prohibits a person from giving specific legal advice to others for legal matters in that state if person is not a lawyer licensed in the state where the issue or problem is occuring. The best that responders, including lawyers, may do on these sorts of boards is give you the general legal principles that apply to the type of problem a poster has and point out things that perhaps the poster should consider. There can be value in that, but it is certainly no substitute for actual legal advice from a lawyer licensed in that jurisdiction.