Woman freed from paying loans husband acquired without her permission
Friday, September 27, 2019 @ 7:12 PM
A WOMAN whose husband signed up for credit without her permission or knowledge has been absolved from paying back the debt in a Supreme Court (pictured) verdict that will set a precedent for similar cases.
Generally, in financial terms, a married couple is treated as one body and is jointly liable for debts contracted by either party in both names after the marriage becomes legal.
In this case, the plaintiff's husband had signed cheques, obtained and used a credit card and taken out personal loans, all in his wife's name, from the now-defunct high-street bank Banesto, which ceded the debts, in accordance with its usual practice, to the company Aiqon Capital Lux S.A.R.L.
Her husband had forged her signature and even set up a post office box number for bank statements to be sent to, so she would never find out.
She did, however, when her husband defaulted on the repayments and she received a written demand for the sum of €17,808.
The plaintiff asked the bank for explanations, divorced her husband and filed legal action against him for forgery – but the case was dropped when he subsequently died.
She then took action against Aiqon Capital Lux...
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