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Verbal Agreement

I was separated from my husband and we decided to get back together so I moved in a house he was renting it did not work out so I moved out the landlord was aware that I was living there I decided it was not working out so I moved out. One day the landlord came to my job and asked me for my husbanc I told him I did not know where he was he informed me that he had given my husbanc $2000.00 for the clean up of a tree that had fell in the back yard after the hurricane to my understanding he and my husband had agreed that my husband would clean up the cut and clean up the yard instead of hiring someone , but he didn't pay my husband case he wrote him a check for $2000.00 to a place called Hot Wheels which I found out is a car dealership so since he could not find
My husband I received a citation from the marshalls office that the landlor is trying to file suit against me to collect the money that he gave him and also collect for one months
Rent. My question is am I liable for this being that I was not aware are involved in any verbal agreement between the two men.

Doesn't sound like you can be held liable for this at all.

No, but you will have to go to court and defend yourself.

So he will have to prove first he gave you the money, and secon that you had some agreement with him.

As Fr_Chuck stated, no, you cannot be held liable if you can prove that you didn't receive any money from the landlord and that you had no knowledge of the agreement.

However, if a court date is scheduled make sure you show up; failure to do so will result in a default judgment being placed against you and you'll be liable to pay for something that doesn't concern you.

If there is nothing in writing to support his alegations forget it he just can't involve you did he ask you to clean up the mess? It's not your fault he don't know how to find him he just mad cause he can't so he trying to get the money any way he can. As far as the rent was there a lease? Did he let you sub-lease? Then Oh well tell him to go sit down better yet tell him to purchase a hovearound and go hover around the neighborhood until he find your husband OOkay!

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Originally Posted by dissapointed

If there is nothing in writing to support his alegations forget it he just can't involve you did he ask you to clean up the mess? It's not your fault he don't know how to find him he just mad cause he can't so he trying to get the money any way he can. As far as the rent was there a lease? did he let you sub-lease? Then Oh well tell him to go sit down better yet tell him to purchase a hovearound and go hover around the neighborhood until he find your husband OOkay!

1. This thread is 2 years old.

2. If the cancelled check was made out to her husband, she could have benefitted from the money. A cancelled check IS something "in writing."

The landlord can involve whoever s/he wants to involve. If she doesn't show up, a default judgment gets placed against her. The court has no idea what she did or didn't agree to do.

This is a law board and our answers here must conform to the law, not contain gibberish like, "...tell him to purchase a hovearound and go hover around the neighborhood until he find your husband OOkay!" Is that even English?