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    Default Can You Enforce an Agreement With a Relative to Pay for a Phone on Your Account

    My question involves collection proceedings in the State of: Missouri

    So my sister shut off my other sister's phone and then she got a new phone in her own name.

    Let's call the sister that was using the phone Sister A and the one that had the phone on her account Sister B.

    They had a vocal agreement that Sister B would put the phone in her name and on her account, and that Sister A would pay the monthly fees for it.

    The phone was a Galaxy S5, and it was on a payment plan deal, where you pay it off over time.

    But when Sister A moved out, Sister B turned her phone off because she wouldn't answer her calls. Sister A then got a new phone in her own name, and Sister B later turned it back on.

    Now Sister B is demanding that Sister A pay off the rest of the phone, but I feel that since Sister B violated any agreement they had by turning Sister A's phone off without warning, Sister A shouldn't be legally obligated to pay on it anymore.

    Even if Sister A kept the phone and continued paying for it, she'd be running the risk of Sister B turning it off on a whim again since Sister B has it in her account.

    As far as I'm aware, there was no written contract, but there would no doubt be plenty of evidence that Sister A was the one using it, and Sprint probably would have record of Sister B turning the phone off.

    Am I right?

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    Default Re: Sister Turned Off My Other Sister's Phone - is She Obligated to Finish Paying It

    The person whose name is on the bill is responsible for paying the bill. It's sure as heck isn't up to you to decide who did or didn't violate any agreement, and not just because the agreement is going to be virtually impossible to enforce to begin with.

    Everyone involved needs to grow up.

    Failing that, one can take the other to court to try and have the verbal agreement enforced.

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