Re: A bit curious

Carin,

I guess it depends on when this happened. I'm a member of an Inlaws board and we've had a few members there who've had their identities stolen by their parents or inlaws. The inlaws have run up credit card bills in their children's names and the kids didn't find out about it until they tried to get a mortgage and it showed up on their credit report. They were told that the only way they could avoid paying for the debt would be to file charges against that relative. I'm fortunate that that's never happend to me though so I can't speak from personal experience.

P.

Carin wrote:
My older brother had to file bankruptcy twice in his life. The second
time was due to malicious deeds done by his ex-wife. She could not stand
the fact that he was moving on w/ his life and marrying someone else
(despite the fact that they'd been divorced for years and that SHE had been
the one to demand the divorce). So she applied (and received) for several
credit cards, forged his name on them (as if they were still married), ran
the charges up to outrageous amounts that could not be paid, ran his phone
bill up and I don't know what else (a side-note, another "crazy" thing she
did was to threaten to kidnap their baby after it was born--she made this
threat right in front of a police officer). Since she committed fraud, why
is it that the creditors would not dismiss them, or at least dismiss his
name from them? Could he not have shown them the divorce papers proving
that they were no longer married and that she had no right to put his name
down (and sign it) on any documents? There HAS to be better protection for
people out there.


Carin

carin@sbcglobal.net