For the PH legal beagles

[turbobloke]

Got chatting with a client today and he mentioned some an offspring that's flown the nest who's now serving up a bit of gtief. Apparently the mid-twenties son of this chap forged his signature as a guarantor on rent for a luxury flat that's being shared with the lad's best mate, and this rent is now in arrears. So a not very nice letter has arrived demanding payment.

He doesn't want to add deception or forgery or whatever to the wayward lad's list so thinks he'll have to stump up this far, but wondered if - in the context that he had actually signed a guarantor form -could he decide at a later point he doesn't want to continue, and withdraw from the arrangement at a specified date by writing to the letting agency?

I thought that this made sense, if you can decide in then you should be able to decide out, but wasn't sure and didn't know if the current overdue rent changes things in any way. What's the score for him?

[2 Smokin Barrels]

I suppose it depends how long the lease is, and how easy it is to quit. If it's a long lease, or hard to quit, I think he's got no option but to dob him in. If it's short it's probably stump up & bale out.

In any event, the sprog needs seeing to with a baseball bat. I think I'd turn him in anyway, a lesson learned etc.