my ex husband is still using my address

DylanO

custardy wrote: »

you mean the post i replied to previously
Its a nice try
better luck next time

No, I mean the OP.

custardy

DylanO wrote: »

No, I mean the OP.

yes,this reply

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=36312697&postcount=9

again. nice try
your input in this thread has been poor at best.

BitterAndTwisted

Glamourforall: Please disregard the bickering!

You are going to need to buy some stamps and some writing-paper. Every piece of mail that comes through your letter-box you open. You WRITE to the sender, sending a photocopy of their letter attached, and tell them that the party they are trying to correspond with does not live at your address and they never have. The person's current address is whatever address you have or had for them. As this person is not connected to you, you will not be corresponding with them again about this person. Do this with every creditor and then try to forward the letters to your ex if you know where they are. Do not bother trying to phone any of these organisations as they will not pay any attention to what you say even if they pretend that they will. They are used to people phoning up and lying or getting other people to lie for them to put their creditors off the scent.

It is not illegal to open mail correctly delivered to the right postal address even if it's not got your name on it. It's only illegal to put those letters to fraudulent use, which you will not be.

The danger for you is that if you do not take any action the letters will still keep coming, the debts will then be sold on to Debt-Collection Companies and these are the people who will turn up on your door-step eventually. Even bailiffs if they're persistent (they are!) and you're unlucky. The upside is that debts are attached to individuals and not addresses, so no-one can make you pay the debts, the debts won't affect your own credit-rating and any bailiffs who do turn up cannot enter to take away your possessions if you do not admit them.

This is all assuming that you do not or did not have any joint financial commitments with him. If you did, that is an altogether different scenario and a much more frightening one.

j.e.j.

Glamourforall you need to start a new thread. Asking a completely new question on an already existing thread can cause confusion!

j.e.j.

barnabee wrote: »

I am with Custardy - newbie Glamourforall at post 12 should have started a new thread instead of reviving an old one from the year 2010.

He/she has done a similar thing over on the loans board, - hopped on an already-existing thread and asked the same question, I think.

themull1

send a covering letter saying i have moved address, my new address is now... and sign.

paddy's_mum

'Not known at this address' has an entirely different meaning to 'no longer at this address'..and giving the correct, current one.