Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Kentucky

Re: Credit obtained illegally

Hello,

What a joy are children. You don't have to pay, or file charges, but you still may not be happy about the result.

If you or your husband KNEW she was going to do this you could have more problems.

Basically, the phone company is the victim of fraud, by your stepdaughter.

Your position would depend upon a number of things but most importantly:

-when you knew about it

-what you did about it when you found out

-how prepared you are to let her take the consequences for her own actions.

Their options are to file suit against you, if you won't pay. Then in court, they have to prove that it is your husband's signature on the contract.

Now, you don't have to file charges, in order to deny the debt, but the phone company might, and they could possibly make your husband testify in that case.

That is about all that I want to say without knowing more, but a it would depend on the amount of money involved, when you or your husband found out about it, and several other factors.

Good Luck