Money Moral Dilemma: Should I pay half the parking 'fine' my husband got giving my parents a lift?

gothvixen

There's nothing like a healthy marriage.
Challenge it, because you want to fight for what's right on his behalf.
Or don't, because you're together out of boredom.

Half_way

The correct answer is not to pay the parking charge if issued on private land do not pay the scammers.

Instead you read up on the advice on this forum ad see the thing off.

 

You then tell all the others in the car, friends etc about this scam and this forum and how to beat them.

The only moral issue would be if you are stupid enough to pay, and then you are helping the parking industry to prey upon the vulnerable

Fluffykins

The registered keeper ( the person whose name is on the registration document) is the person to whom the parking company's invoice is addressed. The registered keeper is the person who will appeal the ticket.
Do NOT identify the Driver or even hinted at the identity.
Your first port of call is the practice or whoever employed the parking company. Ask them to instruct (not ask) their parking company to cancel.
Go to the experts on Free Traffic Legal Advice (https://www.ftla.uk) and start a thread there. 
Begin here, which tells you how to start things off.
https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/

Ian181676

Assuming the parking company is working for the surgery, ask the surgery to tell the parking company to cancel the invoice. That's what I did when I received one for allegedly breaching the terms and conditions for parking in a hotel car park.  It was much easier asking the hotel to get it cancelled  than appealing to the parking company on the grounds that I was staying at the hotel, had registered my car at reception and was therefore entitled to park in the car park until my later than normal check out.

[Deleted User]

To be fair, it wouldn’t really have mattered who your husband was transporting as this actually has nothing to do with the fine itself. Assuming you were aware that he needed to enter the registration number on arrival at the surgery, it was up to you to let him know this in advance. If you didn’t tell him then in your shoes my conscience would be playing on me. However, if neither one of you knew, and there were no adequate signs anywhere in the parking area or the doctors’ surgery, then this is neither your fault nor your husband’s. In this case I would definitely appeal against the fine. Hope this helps & good luck.

Coupon-mad

[Deleted User] said:

To be fair, it wouldn’t really have mattered who your husband was transporting as this actually has nothing to do with the fine itself. Assuming you were aware that he needed to enter the registration number on arrival at the surgery, it was up to you to let him know this in advance. If you didn’t tell him then in your shoes my conscience would be playing on me. However, if neither one of you knew, and there were no adequate signs anywhere in the parking area or the doctors’ surgery, then this is neither your fault nor your husband’s. In this case I would definitely appeal against the fine. Hope this helps & good luck.

It's not a fine and there's no real appeal.

jax_bargains

Oh Wow, can't believe this is even an issue between a happily married couple. Maybe agree to go halves and lesson learned? If you can't sort that out, maybe a divorce lawyer is required. 

itgoodson

If you're married, surely when one pays the other pays? I don't get it.

Coupon-mad

jax_bargains said:

Oh Wow, can't believe this is even an issue between a happily married couple. Maybe agree to go halves and lesson learned? If you can't sort that out, maybe a divorce lawyer is required. 

itgoodson said:

If you're married, surely when one pays the other pays? I don't get it.

I have no idea why any MSE posters are talking about PAYING a scam invoice?!

emmagater

This one is odd on two levels 

1 - Of course you challenge it - as other responders have said, it’s a private fine anyway but regardless, you didn’t park illegally and cameras could show that. Forgetting to register on a private system does not make you liable for a fine

2 - You’re married? Clearly you don’t have joint finances and that’s fine but you are a team are you not?? Unless this a long running feud about you dealing with everything then do you not tackle this together?? Yes he was the driver but he was also doing a good deed. And you’re a married couple!

Regardless of the above, do not pay it