phone bill

[markessex]

Don't know if i posted this in the right place but my mates x has left him and the phone bill is still in his x's maiden name as she did not change it when they got married, when the bill comes who has to pay it. and is it his or hers responsibility to contact the phone company. he is still living at the address where the phone line is and still in her name now.

[Buenchico]

As I see it, your mate's ex signed the contract, with the phone company, for the provision of telephone services to that address. So, even if your mate phones his family in Australia every day, she is still responsible for paying the service provider.

However, she could argue that because it's 'her' phone service, he's no longer entitled to use it (or certainly not without paying for the calls). She could then bill him for the cost of all calls made since she left. (She can't bill him for such things as the line rental, because those costs would have occurred even if your mate had pulled the phone's plug out of its socket and never used it. It's her fault that her contract with the phone company was never terminated).

Concerning who should contact the phone company, it would seem to make sense for your mate's ex to contact them, to prevent her receiving further bills for a service she's no longer using. However, your mate needs to be aware that, if she does so, he might suddenly find that his phone line has gone dead and that he's required to pay a connection fee as a new customer. So, it might be simplest if he just asked the phone company to change the name on the bill.

Chris

[fred_smith]

she does , and if she has left him and the phone is in the property he is residing at now it will infringe his credit status too he can apply for his credit reference and if it does appear so he can apply for a notice of diassociation so in effect repairing his credit status.you can find the credit file site if you type experian in to google