My question involves a security deposit in the State of: Wisconsin
My wife lived in an apartment with one other roommate until about a month ago (we just got married a few weeks ago and now live in Minnesota) at which time they both moved out.
The landlord sent their entire security deposit to the other roommate and now she refuses to send my wife's portion back.
The lease had both of their names on it, but the security deposit was paid for to the landlord with one check from the former roommate. My wife paid her portion via check directly to the now former roommate so there will be a record of it being deposited, but I don't know how we could go about subpoenaing that information.
Obviously the landlord is not at fault and was actually a nice guy, but the former roommate is being belligerent and not returning my wife's portion. I'm assuming we're looking at small claims court in the case that we can't settle it with the former roommate. Does anyone have additional information about what we can be doing or whether we even have a hope of getting the money back?

