Legal Question in Legal Ethics in Florida

i allowed a company that my sister used to work for use of my cell phone so that she could use it to answer incoming calls and for dispatching service.The phones were all shut off for nonpayment of the bills when the first bill of 516.00 was unpaid, and the next bill was 600.00 They offfered to pay this bill at 200.00 bi/weekly, which i refused to accept, due to the fact that neither my mother, my sister nor i, who shared these phones should be expected to pay for a service we could not use because of their failure to pay the bills. They then responded to me on company letterhead from their company lawyer that they never had, never would agree to pay my "personal phone bill". This bill is now at 1255.00, I am getting credit collection calls, and I don't know just what I am legally able to do about this.


Asked on 9/30/09, 9:28 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Alan Wagner Wagner, McLaughlin & Whittemore P.A.

Lots of this does not make sense. You lent the phone to the company? Why in the world? The company did not have a phone? Sounds like you lent the phone to your sister and she used it. The debt would be hers. If she allowed the company to use the phone (again, why would she have a job where a phone was needed and the company did not have a phone?). Absent an agreement, you have a hard case. You can sue, but if you actually lent the phone to sister, the claim should be brought by her, not you. Something doesn't sound right here.

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Answered on 9/30/09, 9:42 pm


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