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    Default Signing Your Spouse's Name to His Paychecks

    My question involves a marriage in the state of: Louisiana

    Could I get in trouble if I signed his paychecks to put them in our joint account while we were married?

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    Default Re: Signing Your Spouse's Name to His Paychecks

    When did this happen? Why didn't he sign and deposit the checks himself? If he disapproved of your conduct, what did he do afterward?

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    Default Re: Signing Your Spouse's Name to His Paychecks

    Nothing he told me to and this was atleast 3 years before we separated.. he would forget and call me and tell me to just sign it and deposit them..

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    Default Re: Signing Your Spouse's Name to His Paychecks

    Generally speaking though what you did is illegal, it is very unlikely a prosecutor would be willing to be a pawn used for his personal revenge.

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    Default Re: Signing Your Spouse's Name to His Paychecks

    Thank you

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    Default Re: Signing Your Spouse's Name to His Paychecks

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    Generally speaking though what you did is illegal...
    In Louisiana, the crime of forgery requires the intent to defraud. There's no indication here of any such intent.

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    Default Re: Signing Your Spouse's Name to His Paychecks

    Also, Louisiana is a community property state so that makes it even less likely that something like that would ever be prosecuted.

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    Default Re: Signing Your Spouse's Name to His Paychecks

    Might I suggest you look at the correct crime?

    http://law.justia.com/codes/louisian...e14/rs14-71-1/

    §71.1. Bank fraud

    A. Whoever knowingly executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice to do any of the following shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than ten years, or may be fined not more than one hundred thousand dollars, or both:

    (1) To defraud a financial institution.

    (2) To obtain any of the monies, funds, credits, assets, securities, or other property owned by or under the custody or control of a financial institution by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, practices, transactions, representations, or promises.
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    In Louisiana, the crime of forgery requires the intent to defraud. There's no indication here of any such intent.

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    Default Re: Signing Your Spouse's Name to His Paychecks

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    Might I suggest you look at the correct crime?

    http://law.justia.com/codes/louisian...e14/rs14-71-1/
    I don't see how that fits this scenario at all.

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    Default Re: Signing Your Spouse's Name to His Paychecks

    Good thing you do not work for a bank then.

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    I don't see how that fits this scenario at all.

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