Bad checks in your name written by someone else?
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Bad checks in your name written by someone else?
This question actually pertains to my girlfriend’s grandmother. Her daughter lives with her. Her daughter wrote bad checks in her name, and now her grandmother may go to jail for the bad checks written by her daughter. what can be done to keep her grandmother from taking the fall for this?
Asked on May 1, 2009 under Criminal Law, Missouri
Answers:
B. B., Member, New Jersey Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 15 years ago | Contributor
Your girlfriend's grandmother needs a lawyer. If you need to find a lawyer, you can do that at http://attorneypages.com
In a case like this, grandmother has to be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, so if there were proof that the daughter actually wrote the checks, without the grandmother's permission, grandmother should be found not guilty. Sometimes a handwriting expert can be brought into court to show who did, or didn't write the checks. Other ways of proving this might be to look at what the checks were used for, or bringing in (as witnesses) the people who got the checks, to describe the person who gave them the checks.
Of course, whatever is done to get grandma off the hook will probably be used to send the daughter to jail instead.
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