Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Florida

getting a loan back

my question is my husband let a ex-girfriend borrow money she said it was because she was very sick and later acknowledge it was to set up a tennis camp. Well it is over $$30,000 and we have been waiting about 15yrs. now. She acknowledges verbal she owes the money but never pays it back she is now a director of a tennis camp. Also along the way she stole my husbands ss# to get credit cards and loans in his name. We need to money to pay the credit card he lent her. The payment is like almost $1,000 mont without finance charge so it never goes down. The problem is she is in Fl. and we are in Co. and there is no lawyer in colorado that will take us and we do not have the money to fly down and get a lawyer she has been in touch with my husband all of these years and wired $100.00 about 3 months ago so she does know it is a loan how to we go about getting the money and would it be illegal for me to contact her and ask for it. Because this gone on way to long and we cannot afford to pay this anymore.


Asked on 2/02/09, 8:14 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Steven Meyer CPLS, P.A.

Re: getting a loan back

If your husband made a loan with a verbal agreement for the woman to pay it back, the time limit to sue her in court probably expired a long time ago. The time limits, called the statute of limitations, vary from state to state, but one would have to apply the law of the state where the loan was made, irrespective of where your husband the woman now live. The good news is that by making the $100 payment recently, she may have created a new period in which you can sue her. You can certainly contact her, and you may want to turn it over to a collection agency or to an attorney in Florida to contact her.

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Answered on 2/02/09, 9:58 pm


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