Proof of debt couldnt be found, what are my rights?
Date: Mon, 10/30/2006 - 19:02
An old employer of mine sent me a bill a couple months after my resignation. The "misc. charges" add up to over $9600.00. An alarming amount considering that during the one and a half years of this commission-based job I only made approx $20,000 total! At first I thought he was just trying to get back at me for leaving the company. This alleged debt is totally ungrounded. A few months after that I received a letter from a colection agency. Over the course of the next 5.5 months I repeatedly asked them for proof of this debt, and they could not come up with any. I sent them another letter saying that what they were doing was harassment, and I would take them to court if necessary.
Then, I got a letter from an attourney trying to collect the same debt. My question is how can this be legal? Is there some law that if they could not prove the debt within a given timeframe (6 months seems like plenty) the debt is considered void? Also, it does not seem legal that a collection agency can just keep passing the case on to the next person to try to collect when they could not find any grounds for the debt? Any help answering these questions, or guidance to where I can do some investigation of my own would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Then, I got a letter from an attourney trying to collect the same debt. My question is how can this be legal? Is there some law that if they could not prove the debt within a given timeframe (6 months seems like plenty) the debt is considered void? Also, it does not seem legal that a collection agency can just keep passing the case on to the next person to try to collect when they could not find any grounds for the debt? Any help answering these questions, or guidance to where I can do some investigation of my own would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
You should talk to a lawyer about this case. This is a kind of d
You should talk to a lawyer about this case. This is a kind of debt created by your previous company and you totally unaware of it. There must be something to prove that you are responsible to pay it. When a collector gets involved and he is unable to recover the money, the file keeps passing from one hand to another. You may need to solve this problem directly with your employer and an attorney will prove helpful.
