Please Help Me... My Ex Owes Me Money!! What Can I Do??

[mimicoco89]

i lent my ex 2000$ (february 2012) for what he claimed was to make an insurance payment. A month prior i found out that he had used my visa card to make 2 payments totaling up to 700$ (january 2012). But before all this happend i had lent him smaller amounts of money back in the months of october to december 2011 (ie 100$, 300$, 60$, 40$ etc) because he had claimed that he lost his wallet. we both agreed that after i lent him the last 2000$ that he owed me 4000$... i kept hassaling him for the money and told me that he would even pay 500$ ofinterest because i was annoying always asking for this money. last summer (july 2012) he paid me 2000$ and 2 months ago (february) paid me an additional 200$. that was the last payment i recieved...i have a letter signed by him saying that he owes me 2165 $(this was before he agreed to the 500$ of interest...and if your wondering, the extra 165$ was because he told me that i was so cheap because i kept asking him for the money, he told me to buy a pair of shoes with the additional 165$)..... after he paid me the first 2000$ i made him sign another contract stating that he owed me 2500$.... instead he decided to mock me and signed that he would pay me 5000$......about one month ago he attempted to pay me via paypal (5000$)..... i told him to email me the cofirmation email and number... he did..when i callled pay pal they told me that the confirmation number was invalid and the payment was fake... he never made it and made up a whole confirmation email from paypal.... what can i do??

i feel like theres nothing i can do because the amounts vary so much and my story is so confusing. I personally think that he signed those papers with outragous amounts of money on purpose so my story looks confusing and not serious... i dont even know how to present this case in front of a judge!
please someone help me!!

[pink-kittens]

This is a UK site and it appears you are in the US, ergo it is unlikely anyone here will know of any US law that can enable you to gain a refund from monies your husband owes you
In any case, if you were married at the time of these loans, then surely the money would be classed as both of yours in legal terms?

I imagine you have small claims courts in the US? Try one of those. I would think there will be lots of information on how you can use small claims and how much you can claim in your state as I do know the amount of SC varies a lot form state to state

[boxtops]

I'm not clear if ex means husband or boyfriend/partner in which case the debts might not be joint. As factor says, you need US-based advice.

[mimicoco89]

Thanks guys!!! Im canadian if that changes anything for u! And he waa not my husband it was only a boyfriend so there are no joint bank accounts or anything like that.

[pink-kittens]

factor?? Reading glasses, box :)

mini, no it makes no difference being Canadian, that doesn't make this a Canadian web site still a UK one :)