Check cashing place after me?!?

[Ct1001]

I live in Florida and recently put a stopped payment on a check that I had given to a contractor because he did not fulfill the terms of our work agreement and would not sign a waiver of lien. When he didn't return my phone calls and show up at my home to finish the job, I put in for the stop payment at my bank.

Turns out he had gone to a check cashing place right after I had given him the check and recieved the funds. Now the check cashing place is saying they are going to contact the attorney general and take me to court if I don't make good on the funds since they can't get in touch with this contractor.

Am I actually liable now to the check cashing store for this, even thought my agreement was with the contractor and I had actually made the check out to him?

 

[Ladynred]

You did nothing illegal, you were perfectly within your rights to put a stop-payment on that check. Their threats are exactly that - threats and they really can't do anything to you. You argument is with the contractor, the check-cashing place got caught in the middle. These check cashing/payday loan people make a LOT of noise and make a lot of threats, but for the most part they're spewing swamp gas.