Q: How can fraud be committed in a relationship?
My ex-girlfriend is claiming she is filing charges against me for fraud because she gave me money to pay bills, child support, and other essentials. We do not live together and she says that I inflated the cost of the bills at my place in order to get more money from her in order to date other women, which never happened. She is threatening me by saying if I don't sign a promissory note to pay her back she will file criminal charges against me. Supposedly, she has given her phone to a detective and shown budgets she created based on those figures. How can this be considered fraud when the money was used for exactly what we talked about? Can this conversation be considered extortion on her part?
A: If she doesn't have emails or texts from you with false figures for rent, gas, electricity, water/sewage, car insurance, car note, then there is no fraud. If she doesn't have emails or text from you with a false figure for your child support, and willingly gifted you money to pay your child support, then there is no fraud. Print any texts or emails from her threatening to criminally charge you if you don't sign a promissory note and take that to the Sheriff's Office.
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