I am in North Carolina.
I have a business and provided consulting services for a customer and friend of mine over the years she became ill and past away. I was paid for my services before she died when her kids returned home from college and found out that I was paid and how much I was paid ($42,000) they went to the bank to put a stop payment on my check. The bank told them they had to have a good reason for a stop payment and decided to say I stole the check and forged it.
I was taken up on charges of lacerny and had to go to court three times and pay a until the case was dismissed when I show the DA a copy of the receipt I gave there mother before she passed. In the mean time the kids are going around telling everyone they talk to that I'm a theft and they will not return my monies. Do I have a case for Defamation and slander because these rumors have stopped my business phone from ringing and I can feel my business at a freeze and I am losing out all the way around. What can I do next
I have a business and provided consulting services for a customer and friend of mine over the years she became ill and past away. I was paid for my services before she died when her kids returned home from college and found out that I was paid and how much I was paid ($42,000) they went to the bank to put a stop payment on my check. The bank told them they had to have a good reason for a stop payment and decided to say I stole the check and forged it.
I was taken up on charges of lacerny and had to go to court three times and pay a until the case was dismissed when I show the DA a copy of the receipt I gave there mother before she passed. In the mean time the kids are going around telling everyone they talk to that I'm a theft and they will not return my monies. Do I have a case for Defamation and slander because these rumors have stopped my business phone from ringing and I can feel my business at a freeze and I am losing out all the way around. What can I do next
