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Can someone collect on something you didn't physically sign


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I have a collection for a satellite provider that is from 99. It recently hit my credit in Oct 05 because I moved and they just now caught up. As soon as I got the letter I paid it though. By then it had already hit my credit.

So I challenged it being mine right but that came back verified. Can I ask for signature proof of a legal contract?

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Being from 1999 or so, your paid chargeoff should drop off in a couple or years. Signed contracts are usually never required in order to prove a debt. Courts render judgments based on prepoderence of evidence and not on lack of signatures agreeing to the debt in the first place.

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Being from 1999 or so, your paid chargeoff should drop off in a couple or years. Signed contracts are usually never required in order to prove a debt. Courts render judgments based on prepoderence of evidence and not on lack of signatures agreeing to the debt in the first place.

Not entirely accurate. Courts rule on the evidence period. A formal, signed contractual agreement is strong evidence. The lack of such written agreement is weaker evidence. The preponderance of evidence comes in many forms and presentations. Debt collectors still win a lot more cases than they should, based on consumer ignorance of the law.

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ghacorp, doesn't paying restart the SOL? He paid it in 2005.

Being from 1999 or so, your paid chargeoff should drop off in a couple or years. Signed contracts are usually never required in order to prove a debt. Courts render judgments based on prepoderence of evidence and not on lack of signatures agreeing to the debt in the first place.
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