If someone writes you a check and you cash it at a store but it bounces, is it your responsibility or theirs?
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If someone writes you a check and you cash it at a store but it bounces, is it your responsibility or theirs?
If it is theirs how do you explain it to the store?
Asked on January 12, 2012 under Bankruptcy Law, New York
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If you deposited the bad check written by someone to you and it fails to clear due to insufficient funds, you are responsible for the process fee directly for the bad check. Indirectly, the person who wrote you the bad check is responsible to you for the process fee regarding the bad check and making the check good to the person who deposited it in the amount of the check.
If you deposited the check and received funds for it where the balance of your account has insufficient funds to cover the bad check, you are ultimately responsible for repaying the bank for that money. You then go after the person who wrote the bad check to make good on it.
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