Seventeen year old debt

[sewbusy]

I live in Wisconsin but the bill was incurred in Oklahoma. I went down to Oklahoma in 1987 to stay with my brother and enter drug rehab. 17 years later a bill came from that Rehab Center. My brother and I are in a vicious estate battle but has always claimed he paid it for me. What is the Statute of Limitations in Oklahoma on this kind of thing. Thank you, Caroline

 

[TomHartmann]

I live in Wisconsin but the bill was incurred in Oklahoma. I went down to Oklahoma in 1987 to stay with my brother and enter drug rehab. 17 years later a bill came from that Rehab Center. My brother and I are in a vicious estate battle but has always claimed he paid it for me. What is the Statute of Limitations in Oklahoma on this kind of thing. Thank you, Caroline

I think SOL is now in effective because it had been 17 years before the bill came to you.

 

[Anisah_H]

I would think the SOL has long expired on this, if there is no judgement against you with it. I don't know what state's SOL's would apply, but the SOL's in Oklahoma are Written Contracts, 5 yrs; Oral Contracts, 3 years; and Promissory Notes, 5 years. SOL starts from the date of the first delinquency I believe (although everyone always disagrees about when it starts). If you are in an estate battle and may come into some money, they may smell the money and that's why they are trying to get it out of you (or maybe your brother gave them your address and said you could pay it).

Glad you got clean!

Anisah

 

[kallco]

I would think that the SOL is WAY up on this for anyone to do anything at all.

You might check out this site: http://www.bcsalliance.com/y_debt_sol.html

Also, research the SOL on debt in Oklahoma.....