Taking ex-housemate to Small Claims Court

moneyistooshorttomention

davidmcn wrote: »

Why would mother pay his debts? She obviously hasn't in the past.

Maybe she draws a distinction between firms (which many people kid themselves dont matter) and a private individual?

Perhaps this time she'll get the message "Time to help son grow up" and cover him on that - but expect it back from him (in cash or kind).

Though I think the most likely scenario is the court will order this character to repay the money at a low weekly rate - but at least OP would get it back at some point and it might just help with teaching this character a lesson to behave more responsibly. Not to mention OP's self-respect for not letting him get away with this...

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Not to mention OP's self-respect for not letting him get away with this...

You mention the OP's self respect more than once, as if they'd have less of it or none at all should they decide to let this go.

For what it's worth, I'd say that on the balance of probabilities, I'd expect to lose time and money pursuing this individual, so I'd choose to put the whole thing down to experience.

As I prefer to make calculated and reasoned decisions, it wouldn't injure my self respect one jot.