Statute of Limitations for Forgery

[Labete]

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

A U.S. citizen, who, under fear for her life and having forged her ex-con husband's signature on her divorce papers and left him and the country for good fourteen years ago, needs to know if he or his family (should he now be dead) can now make a claim against her in a US court of law, especially as she no longer lives in the US? Is there a statute of limitations that comes into play, especially since the forgery was probably never discovered?

 

[LdiJ]

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

A U.S. citizen, who, under fear for her life and having forged her ex-con husband's signature on her divorce papers and left him and the country for good fourteen years ago, needs to know if he or his family (should he now be dead) can now make a claim against her in a US court of law, especially as she no longer lives in the US? Is there a statute of limitations that comes into play, especially since the forgery was probably never discovered?

I am pretty sure that the statute of limitations is long past. Did she benefit in any way from the forgery, outside of the divorce itself?

 

[Ohiogal]

I am pretty sure that the statute of limitations is long past. Did she benefit in any way from the forgery, outside of the divorce itself?

However it may be possible for them to sue if she impeded them from pursuing it before -- i.e. fled the country and hid.

 

[LdiJ]

However it may be possible for them to sue if she impeded them from pursuing it before -- i.e. fled the country and hid.

Assuming that there are any potential damages.

I cannot imagine that she could have taken much in the way of marital assets with her.

That's why I asked if she benefitted from anything besides the actual divorce.