Comments on: 6-month Old Ticket on a Car from 7 years ago http://www.josh-n-lisa.com/2008/09/04/6-month-old-ticket/ wondering what to write in this "blog thing" since 2002 ... Sun, 20 May 2012 08:25:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bj http://www.josh-n-lisa.com/2008/09/04/6-month-old-ticket/#comment-7915 Bj Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:44:00 +0000 http://josh-n-lisa.com/?p=134#comment-7915 Josh, Not sure why a "law firm" would be sending you a letter, unless the parking violation was on private property. Even if it was, you do not have to respond, with some caveats. Being a law firm, they must be aware of due process but also being a law firm they don't care. You do not have to "prove" that you don't own the vehicle and do not have to respond unless there is a valid court order. Which comes to the caveats... If you don't deal with the law firm, they could, and probable easily depending on your state, send you to collections. Now that you have responded to them, it is much easier for them to tie ownership for the debt to an individual. The other caveat is who has more money and time to pour into the issue. I live in Arizona where it is easy to send someone to collections but we also have laws to protect against unsubstantiated lawsuits whereas we could end up suing the accuser. But again, that takes money and time. Best suggestion, don't be confrontational or adversarial with the law firm and work with them in good faith to prove that you don't own the vehicle. Provide a bill of saie, see if the MVD, where the vehicle is registered, will provide you with docuementation as to who owns the vehicle. That can point them in another direction...away from you. Hope this helps. By the way, I am not an attorney and am not providing any legal advice. (Just a little disclaimer) Good luck. Bj Josh,
Not sure why a “law firm” would be sending you a letter, unless the parking violation was on private property. Even if it was, you do not have to respond, with some caveats. Being a law firm, they must be aware of due process but also being a law firm they don’t care. You do not have to “prove” that you don’t own the vehicle and do not have to respond unless there is a valid court order. Which comes to the caveats…

If you don’t deal with the law firm, they could, and probable easily depending on your state, send you to collections. Now that you have responded to them, it is much easier for them to tie ownership for the debt to an individual.

The other caveat is who has more money and time to pour into the issue. I live in Arizona where it is easy to send someone to collections but we also have laws to protect against unsubstantiated lawsuits whereas we could end up suing the accuser. But again, that takes money and time.

Best suggestion, don’t be confrontational or adversarial with the law firm and work with them in good faith to prove that you don’t own the vehicle. Provide a bill of saie, see if the MVD, where the vehicle is registered, will provide you with docuementation as to who owns the vehicle. That can point them in another direction…away from you. Hope this helps. By the way, I am not an attorney and am not providing any legal advice. (Just a little disclaimer) Good luck.

Bj

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