Maryland -
I'm not sure if this situation would fall under family law or not but..to make a long story short, a friend's daughter is attending a college where both parents (divorced) were required through the divorce decree to pay a certain percentage of the daughter's college. (mother 20%, father 80%). the daughter lives in an apartment complex that is located on campus and filled with students but not on the same plane as dorm living when it comes to tuition. her father filed for a parent plus loan and her mother did the fasfa and also was able to get grants in order to make up the different percentages....in february, the college student got a notice from her apartment complex that she owed 2100.00 for the semester. when she called the registrar's office at the school they had mentioned that she had two loan checks that totaled around that amount that were sent to her father's address...since the mother is unable to get any information in re the loans as they are in the father's name - that was all she was able to find out was that the checks were indeed sent to the father's address. (these checks were sent in february around the time the daughter received notice that she was in the red with the apartment complex - this is also around the same time that the father acquired a brand new wide flat screen plasma tv). the daughter is ready to be kicked out of her apartment complex at any day and the father refuses to be of any assistance in finding out what happened to the "missing checks" or give any financial help to her. is there any recourse that either the daughter or mother would be able to do in order to find out what happened to the checks? they were parent-student plus loans that were in the father's name intended for educational/room/board use - its to be believed that he may have thought it to be a new pay day for himself...isn't this a form of fraud/theft? any help would be appreciated as far as legal recourse.
(the father has been known to steal from his children before - as far as gifts from relatives, etc. and being that he is a loan officer he is able to "hide" his income)
I'm not sure if this situation would fall under family law or not but..to make a long story short, a friend's daughter is attending a college where both parents (divorced) were required through the divorce decree to pay a certain percentage of the daughter's college. (mother 20%, father 80%). the daughter lives in an apartment complex that is located on campus and filled with students but not on the same plane as dorm living when it comes to tuition. her father filed for a parent plus loan and her mother did the fasfa and also was able to get grants in order to make up the different percentages....in february, the college student got a notice from her apartment complex that she owed 2100.00 for the semester. when she called the registrar's office at the school they had mentioned that she had two loan checks that totaled around that amount that were sent to her father's address...since the mother is unable to get any information in re the loans as they are in the father's name - that was all she was able to find out was that the checks were indeed sent to the father's address. (these checks were sent in february around the time the daughter received notice that she was in the red with the apartment complex - this is also around the same time that the father acquired a brand new wide flat screen plasma tv). the daughter is ready to be kicked out of her apartment complex at any day and the father refuses to be of any assistance in finding out what happened to the "missing checks" or give any financial help to her. is there any recourse that either the daughter or mother would be able to do in order to find out what happened to the checks? they were parent-student plus loans that were in the father's name intended for educational/room/board use - its to be believed that he may have thought it to be a new pay day for himself...isn't this a form of fraud/theft? any help would be appreciated as far as legal recourse.
(the father has been known to steal from his children before - as far as gifts from relatives, etc. and being that he is a loan officer he is able to "hide" his income)