Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!d007118.n1.vanderbilt.EDU!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Any one familiar with Japanese Law? Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:21:36 -0500 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <40910160.2010102@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: d007118.n1.vanderbilt.edu (129.59.7.118) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1083244569 15994099 I 129.59.7.118 ([152756]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:13626 Elbow wrote: > Allo, > I'd like to know if me or my wife is responsible if one of us is sued. > I had a slight accident with my car and found out my insurance will not pay > out for some reason I cant go into here. > The other car owner is now saying that because my insurance wont pay up and > I dont have a job he can get the money from my wife. > Is this true? Is she just as responsible for what I do regardlessof if she > was even inolved? > > Love to know where I stand. > Im only really interested in the law, not if I can get away with out paying. > I'm happy to pay but not happy they think they can harrass my wife every day > with phone calls. > Get a lawyer pronto. Your wife can most likely be sued; is she or her family acting as your guarantor or something like that? My father in law had the misfortune to run into the rear end of a Yakuza guy's car. Nearly went bankrupt because of it. Seems a fender bender sent the guy to the hospital for over a month. Get a lawyer, and tell the people to only contact the lawyer from now on. If they keep calling endlessly after that, tell them you'll call the police and follow through. John W.