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fett76
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What is the name of your state? AZ
I am posing this situation for my brother-in-law.
A week after my brother-in-law and his wife were legally seperated she has some surgery performed on credit. Last week (a few years later) my brother-in-law recieved a call from a collections agency attempting to collect on the debt. He responded that he and his wife were legally seperated at the time of the surgery (they've since divorced) and that they should contact her in this matter. He was told that because she's moved out of state it was easier for them to come after him. He replied that a condition of the divorce was that he would not be responsible for any debt she incurred while they were legally seperated. I've read the document and it definitely states that neither party is responsible for any debt incurred by the other during the time of the legal seperation. He faxed a copy of the divorce decree and the statement of legal seperation to the collections agency who reviewed it and told him that nothing in the documents exempted him from responsibility. From what I've found in my limited research, the collection agency is correct. Can anyone provide more verification of this (AZ is a community property state).
As a side issue, I am the owner and a resident of the house my brother-in-law lives in. Is there anything I, as an uninvolved homeowner, can do to get the collection agency to stop calling my home? They haven't been harassing us too badly but I can see where this might happen.
Thanks!
I am posing this situation for my brother-in-law.
A week after my brother-in-law and his wife were legally seperated she has some surgery performed on credit. Last week (a few years later) my brother-in-law recieved a call from a collections agency attempting to collect on the debt. He responded that he and his wife were legally seperated at the time of the surgery (they've since divorced) and that they should contact her in this matter. He was told that because she's moved out of state it was easier for them to come after him. He replied that a condition of the divorce was that he would not be responsible for any debt she incurred while they were legally seperated. I've read the document and it definitely states that neither party is responsible for any debt incurred by the other during the time of the legal seperation. He faxed a copy of the divorce decree and the statement of legal seperation to the collections agency who reviewed it and told him that nothing in the documents exempted him from responsibility. From what I've found in my limited research, the collection agency is correct. Can anyone provide more verification of this (AZ is a community property state).
As a side issue, I am the owner and a resident of the house my brother-in-law lives in. Is there anything I, as an uninvolved homeowner, can do to get the collection agency to stop calling my home? They haven't been harassing us too badly but I can see where this might happen.
Thanks!