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FutureLawyer05
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What is the name of your state? NEW YORK
years ago, my parents owned a business and a substantial amount of land (apple orchards) which they now rent out to a member of my mother's family. this family member recently sent my parents 2 large rent checks ($15,000 each). before sending them to my dad's house (my parents are in the middle of a separation and live apart), he called my mother and asked how the checks should be made out so as to avoid any chance of my mother being cheated out of money she was owed. both of my parents names are on the deeds to the land they rent and on all corporate documents from the business before it was sold/rented out. my mother told the family member to put both her name and my father's name on the checks. the checks came to my father's house and my mother never saw them. he endorced the checks with his name and then forged her name and deposited both of them into his own bank account. the family member, upon receiving the cancelled checks back from the bank, made a photo copy of the forged endorsement and sent it to my mother, noting that the signiture did not look like her handwritting.
my question is this: what course of action does my mother have available to her? her separation from my father is not legal yet. if she were to go to the police or to the bank, how long does she have to do so before any statue of limitations expires? she has a matrimonial lawyer for the separation; should she bring up this issue as well and could it be used again my father in the divorce proceedings?
thank you,
stephanie
years ago, my parents owned a business and a substantial amount of land (apple orchards) which they now rent out to a member of my mother's family. this family member recently sent my parents 2 large rent checks ($15,000 each). before sending them to my dad's house (my parents are in the middle of a separation and live apart), he called my mother and asked how the checks should be made out so as to avoid any chance of my mother being cheated out of money she was owed. both of my parents names are on the deeds to the land they rent and on all corporate documents from the business before it was sold/rented out. my mother told the family member to put both her name and my father's name on the checks. the checks came to my father's house and my mother never saw them. he endorced the checks with his name and then forged her name and deposited both of them into his own bank account. the family member, upon receiving the cancelled checks back from the bank, made a photo copy of the forged endorsement and sent it to my mother, noting that the signiture did not look like her handwritting.
my question is this: what course of action does my mother have available to her? her separation from my father is not legal yet. if she were to go to the police or to the bank, how long does she have to do so before any statue of limitations expires? she has a matrimonial lawyer for the separation; should she bring up this issue as well and could it be used again my father in the divorce proceedings?
thank you,
stephanie