Property Damage

[AnnWms]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?

I live in DC and in the heat of the moment I foolishly smashed a guy's windows on his truck. The police officer did not take a report and stated I had two options: admit and pay or go to jail. Of course I admitted and am willingy to pay.

Catch is the guy's mother is co-owner of said vehicle and wants me to suffer. The officer on the scene stated if the guy and I came to an agreement that would be that and it would no longer be a criminal matter. So the guy and I came to an agreement, we constructed a contract and now the mother is stating she does not agree.

My question is can she cause our contract to be null and void? The contract stated I would pay the damages based on the estimate or any round about costs.

She wants to drag this out and go through elongated extremes. At what point does Statue of Limitations chime in?

[ecmst12]

They can file a lawsuit at any time. SOL for property damage in DC is 3 years. This is a pretty clear cut issue though so if you are willing to cut a check for the repair cost I don't see what the problem could be.

[AnnWms]

They can only file a civil suit and I am aware of that. My question is does the mom have say so in the agreement that was verbally and physically signed by the guy and myself? Is that contract null and void b/c she doesn't agree as co-owner?

[ecmst12]

Technically she could sue but if you paid for the damages to the co-owner, then she has no damages to sue over, so she couldn't possibly get anything out of it.