lucid vein
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? KANSAS
I want to file a case against an ex-roommate who owes me $1400. I have an IOU detailing the debt, with the ex-roommate’s signature agreeing to pay the debt over a period of 4 months. That was nearly 6 months ago.
So, with paperwork like that, I think I’m right to be confident I will win. Unless his defense is convincing to the judge. And his defense will be “I have no job, can find no work and therefore cannot pay this debt. But I promise that I intend to pay it some day in the future”.
It’s the same excuse he used 6 months ago when he wouldn’t pay bills or rent. He’s now living in his girlfriend’s house, and making no attempt to find a job. And hasn’t paid a dime on his debt. He still says he intends to pay, but that’s what his personality is: to seem well-intentioned but then procrastinate forever.
The question is, how do I collect that debt? He doesn’t have much property for anyone to take and sell. He has no wages to garnish. Can, and will, the judge give him a limitation on the time he is to find a job and start paying on this debt? Without some kind of pressure applied from some legal entity, he’s not ever going to pay.
Thanks!
I want to file a case against an ex-roommate who owes me $1400. I have an IOU detailing the debt, with the ex-roommate’s signature agreeing to pay the debt over a period of 4 months. That was nearly 6 months ago.
So, with paperwork like that, I think I’m right to be confident I will win. Unless his defense is convincing to the judge. And his defense will be “I have no job, can find no work and therefore cannot pay this debt. But I promise that I intend to pay it some day in the future”.
It’s the same excuse he used 6 months ago when he wouldn’t pay bills or rent. He’s now living in his girlfriend’s house, and making no attempt to find a job. And hasn’t paid a dime on his debt. He still says he intends to pay, but that’s what his personality is: to seem well-intentioned but then procrastinate forever.
The question is, how do I collect that debt? He doesn’t have much property for anyone to take and sell. He has no wages to garnish. Can, and will, the judge give him a limitation on the time he is to find a job and start paying on this debt? Without some kind of pressure applied from some legal entity, he’s not ever going to pay.
Thanks!