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Unpaid Debt
My girlfriend was without a job, money, place to live a year ago. She asked me to help her and I found her a place to live,and loaned her money. I even bought her a cell phone she said she needed to find jobs. I signed a contract with Sprint in my name and paid all the bills which she promised to repaid me after finding a job. Now she has a job and makes good money but doesn't want to pay me back. I called her asking for my money and she insults me, hangs-up and lies that she dosen't have the money. Meanwhile, she's buying new clothes, ect. HOW CAN I MAKE HER PAY ME BACK???
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you couldnt really MAKE her pay u back, but u could turn the phone off. and have the existing bills sent to her house
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First I would get the cell phone back, if you haven't already.
Then I would just move on. There is really no way you can get her to pay you back, unless you want to go to small claims court or something. I don't think it sounds like it is worth it.
I know this is a really bad thing, but don't loan very large amounts of money to anyone. If you are going to, be sure you can deal with the fact that they may not pay you back.
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Here is why I answered the way I did, and this is as someone who lives in the US without a legal background -
Going to court: I believe you don't have a strong case. You only had a verbal agreement, not signed contract. She was your girlfriend at the time, so this is sounding like a domestic dispute. You will be lucky to get a sympathetic judge.
Harrassing her and going to her job: She has the right to put a restraining order on you if you do this. If you continue, you can find yourself in legal trouble. Collection agencies have laws they have to abide by, and I doubt if you will get sympathy from a judge if you decide to harrass her, and she starts legal procedings herself.
Talking to her: This is your best course of action, since you don't want to just let it go. Good luck.
Regarding the negative feedback given for a few answers here, including mine, I think this is a case of already making a decision and not wanting to hear something other than what you already think. If you don't like this comment either, well, you can't give me lower than a 1.
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well do you have proof you paid her the money if you do go to court and tell them if not talk things out with her
yours truely starminer
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First off, try saying to her that you have been nice about asking her to pay you the money back and you do not wish to take her to court over something simple like this. If she pays, then you know not to loan her money again. If she does not pay, then you need to take her to court and get what's rightfully yours!
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go to your friends house talk to her tell her you helped her out when she needed help and its not right that she dosen't pay you back say that if she doesen't pay you your sorry but you are going to take her to court.
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Hello!
Sorry to hear that this young lady is taking advantage of your kindness, but that happens in life all the time.
There really is no way you can make her pay you back in my personal opinion other than going to court, or harassing your money out of her. I think that maybe you should go to her job and try and see her on the job where she can t really avoid you and not just call on the phone. Yeah hanging up is easy to do but if you and her speak face to face it makes her have to come clean about things. I feel that you need to try and meet up with her some kind of way face to face and talk to her explaining how this feels to you being that you were only trying to help in the first place.
I don t know what else to say but you have to be more smart about things and not trust people so easily.
God Bless :)
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