Legal Question in Criminal Law in Florida
theft of service
I am a small business in florida which renders residential cleaning services. When a customer receives services and signs a full work order contract which states the services were rendered satisfactory and refuses to pay for these services would that not constitute theft of those services under criminal law?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: theft of service
No, think of theft this way: if somebody runs up a bunch of charges on a credit card, and then can't pay for them, its not theft. They can be sued for failure to pay, but they haven't stolen anything. On the other hand, if they run up a bunch of charges and say, "I'll never pay for this," it would be theft.
It may simply be that the person is broke and can't pay. Or maybe they just don't want to pay. It's not theft unless you can prove they never intended to pay.
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