Q: A lawyer is contacting me about my days coin business for a deposition
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So what is happening is my father who passed away in December 2022 had a coin reselling business. People would give my dad there coins and he would find buyers, sell them then give the original seller a percentage. I lived with him at the time and we rented an apartment. I had nothing to do with the business at all. I guess when he passed he had some coins from people. A layer has been contacting me asking me for a date for a deposition about the coins . He first contacted me May 2nd 2023. I have moved from the apartment and found none of the coins. He has called my job looking trying to get in touch with me. Somehow he got my work email and that’s how we have been communicating. When my father passed he left me nothing of value other then a 2017 Passat and life insurance policy for 15,000. I am wondering how he can be coming after me for me to pay back the coins when I had nothing to do with the business. Any advice would be amazingly appreciated.
A: If you had nothing to do with the business or the coins, tell him that, by submitting to a deposition if necessary. It appears that the lawyer simply wants to find out what happened.
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