Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in California
I have an ex-husband (has been an ex for many years) who keeps giving out my personal home phone number to his debt collector as his "correct contact number" (either that or his girlfriend is). Now I am on a constant cycle of trying to convince debt collectors that he has NEVER been and will never be at this number. The issue is occuring within CA, if that is pertinent. I have tried telling each and every calling company that the number is incorrect and giving them his accurate number. This seems to only defer the calls for a few weeks or months.
This is fraud, isn't it?
Is there anything that can be done to stop it?
2 Answers from Attorneys
yeah you can sue him for harassment or disclosure of private facts. You probably won't win but it would deter the acts. Maybe if you told him where his assets were to levy then he would stop doing it.
Not all false information constituted fraud, since there must be damages suffered by the person who receives the false information in order for there to be a fraud claim. I disagree, however, with Mr. Mataele's assessment that you would lose a civil harassment case. You probably wouldn't get much if anything in the way of money damages, but it sounds like you would have a good case for a restraining order and permanent injunction.
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