Should I Take My Mom To Court For Small Claims?
is it silly to want to take my mom to small claims?? Heres the situation…they lent me a truck to drive cuz my car broke down. My mom knew i was unemployed and only had enough money for rent. She threatened to report the truck stolen if i didnt pay her $500 for the truck. I told her the $500 i had left was goin towards rent which was $545.00. I ended up buying the truck cuz i need transportation to and from interviews for potential jobs. She was supposed to give me the title to the truck, but never gave it to me. I was unable to find a job in time, and had to move out still owing for one months rent cuz i didnt give a full 20 days notice. So i had to move back down to olympia with my stepdad. ( my parents are still going thru a divorce so it was just me and him ) Now, because i had to move…to a different county, my bills quickly piled up including one months rent still owed.
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8 Comments to “Should I Take My Mom To Court For Small Claims?”
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By Father Wiggly, July 12, 2010 @ 3:39 pm
I was in a similar situation once, in Huntsville AL. In November 1999, the vice president of the company I worked for called a meeting to squash rumors that there were going to be layoffs. He said not to worry because the rumors were false; there weren’t going to be any layoffs. Two months later, I got laid off along with about a dozen other people. The rumors had been right, but the VP’s lies duped me into doing nothing when I should have been looking for a different job WHILE there was still time.
I could have gambled on being able to get another job before my savings ran out, but I chose to scram out of town instead. And I’m very glad that I did. As I was able, I submitted resumes with cover letters to HUNDREDS of companies over the next several years. I kept a careful written record of job-search contacts to show to the unemployment office bureaucrats. I had three interviews out of all that effort, and no offers to hire me. I wasted the money that I spent on resumes, wasted the money that I spent on postage mailing resumes, and I wasted the money spent going to three interviews that didn’t pan out.
If I had kept faith with the system and stayed in place hoping for a job, though, I’d have wasted a lot more. In Huntsville, I’d had to pay rent. Without an income, that would have made a homeless bum out of me in less than a year. The system is not worthy of your faith, or mine. Don’t trust it, ever.
I lived with my parents again, as I did when I was a child, for about three years. Then things started slowly to get better. My parents never charged me rent, though. Is yo’ mama some kind of enword or what?
By Robert J, July 12, 2010 @ 3:53 pm
If you didn’t have the money to rent the truck, how did you “buy” the truck? You only had $500 to go toward rent. I think you need to grow up and go apologize to your Mom and Stepdad. Then find a cheaper place to live or move in a roommate to share the expenses. Then work another job and forget about having fun and pay your bills. You need to grow up. I’m sure everyone would be really happy if you just would start taking responsibility for your own life.
By James Watkin, July 12, 2010 @ 5:46 pm
If you did not have the 500 dollars for the turck you should have returned it and walked. No court will give you the money back. They also will not make her pay your debts.
By Brian G, July 12, 2010 @ 10:48 pm
I would make sure you have proof of giving her the $500 for the truck first like a check or a signed document, if you dont then your out of luck. As far as the rest of your sistuation with your bills and not finding a job well IMO you wont get anything for that.
By SneedRoc, July 13, 2010 @ 1:37 am
OK i have a few questions. Did you get a receipt for the sale of the truck? Also if you do have a receipt are you trying to make up with your mom? The reason I’m asking is because if you do have proof of payment i would not go to small claims but i would go to the county sheriffs office and have criminal charges filed. If she refused to give you the title after making payment and you have proof like a bank statement showing the withdrawal of the funds and a witness that can testify that they saw money change hands then your mom committed fraud and grand theft auto since by definition the truck no longer belonged to her. Also i would sue her for lost wages as a result of the job you lost as a result of this. If you want to be cool with your mom i would drop it but from the sounds of it you ain’t cool with it so i would get your ducks in a row and see what she has to say when the cops show up on her front porch with a warrant for her arrest
By open4one, July 13, 2010 @ 5:52 am
It’s good to see that this one can’t be blamed on attorneys.
If you take her to court, you will probably never have a civil word with her again in your entire life. It may become something you deeply regret at her funeral.
Considering that the $500 she seems to have screwed you for won’t solve your $5,000 problem, I doubt that it will be worth it.
Find another way to solve the problem.
By robert96, July 13, 2010 @ 10:11 am
The story is confusing, but if you gave Mom $500 for the truck and the deal was that she was selling you the truck for $500, then you are entitled to either the truck & title or a return of the $500.
Yes, you can go to small claims court for this. You will need to convince the judge about the deal and the payment. It would be best if there are things in writing (like an agreement and cancelled checks, etc), but the judge can also just listen to both sides and decide which person to believe.
Up to you. You probably not going to be needing Mom again anyway.
By Father of one G.A.H., July 13, 2010 @ 12:29 pm
I don’t know it the person above me saying is she and n-word or what is talking about what I think he means, but if anyone else looking at this can say for sure report his azz, plz, as for the law suit, I’d sue if not on principal alone, but she has stole your truck, BTW you should never exchange money for N-O-T-H-I-N-G if you don’t get the deal in writing or expect to get screwed!!! Simple as that, let this be a warning not to make that mistake again for anyone…
Guy