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Zorion
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State: Oklahoma. My wife wrote some bad checks several years ago, was eventually arrested, and the judge set bail. I could come up with the bail bond, but not the whole bail; so I turned to a bail bondsman. The bondsman demanded that, since I had no real or personal property, I needed a cosigner, so I had a friend help me out.
After her release, she worked out a payment schedule with the DA and had a court date set for earlier this year. However, I was discharged from service and we moved, after she made a larger-than-normal payment to the DA and formally requested a brief interruption to the payment schedule so we could find work.
Upon moving to Ohio we re-contacted the DA and made further arrangements to pay, which were to begin last week, but the co-signer of the bond, hearing we had moved to Ohio (a non-extradition state, he claims) decided to tell the bondsman we had no intention of paying anything or of coming to the court date. Indeed, we did miss the court date, but she had been in contact with the DA the whole time.
Well, anyway, the bondsman, at this 'friend's' expense, sent out bond enforcement agents, my wife was taken back to Oklahoma, we took care of all fines, fees, etc. and the case is settled... except now the co-signer wants to take us to small claims court over the amount he had to pay for 'recovery charges'. To this end he's even recorded email and chat sessions with the intent of using them 'as evidence' despite the fact there's nothing harmful in them!
Does he have a case against us? I'm really confused by this one.
After her release, she worked out a payment schedule with the DA and had a court date set for earlier this year. However, I was discharged from service and we moved, after she made a larger-than-normal payment to the DA and formally requested a brief interruption to the payment schedule so we could find work.
Upon moving to Ohio we re-contacted the DA and made further arrangements to pay, which were to begin last week, but the co-signer of the bond, hearing we had moved to Ohio (a non-extradition state, he claims) decided to tell the bondsman we had no intention of paying anything or of coming to the court date. Indeed, we did miss the court date, but she had been in contact with the DA the whole time.
Well, anyway, the bondsman, at this 'friend's' expense, sent out bond enforcement agents, my wife was taken back to Oklahoma, we took care of all fines, fees, etc. and the case is settled... except now the co-signer wants to take us to small claims court over the amount he had to pay for 'recovery charges'. To this end he's even recorded email and chat sessions with the intent of using them 'as evidence' despite the fact there's nothing harmful in them!
Does he have a case against us? I'm really confused by this one.