Legal Question in Business Law in California

Re: what happens to ur bills when ur in jail?

I want to add one point to the reply I posted yesterday. The statutes of limitations give your creditors deadlines by which they have to file suit; if they miss those deadlines they lose their rights against you. For debts incurred under a written contract, this period is four years.

The limitations period is tolled while the debtor is imprisoned. In other words, the clock stops ticking when the debtor enters prison and resumes ticking when he leaves. If your creditor has a year left in which to sue and you start a 25-year prison term, the creditor will still have a year left when you are released.

This may sound unfair to the imprisoned debtor, but it is intended to ensure fairness to the creditors. There is no reason why they should lose their rights when a debtor goes to prison, since that would almost amount to punishing them for their customer's crime.

Re: what happens to ur bills when ur in jail?

The same thing that happens when you aren't in jail -- they either get paid or the creditor can report them delinquent, send them to collections, sue you for them, etc. This is true regardless of the length of your sentence.

Re: what happens to ur bills when ur in jail?

If someone else does not pay them for you, they don't get paid.