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Defaulting on a telephone co. contract?

My sister runs a small company which she recently defaulted on a contract with a telephone co. She had a 3 or 4 year contract and when there is about one year remaining on her existing contract, she cancelled her service and went with another telephone co. provider for a much less monthly bill. She did not sign personal, and signed as a corporate officer with the co. of which she had defulted on. Her small business is still operating, and the previous co. obiously is trying to collect on her. Qestion (1) Is she personally liable in any way, when shed signed as an corporate officer? She said she is a Sub-s corp. Q(2): The collection co. left her a message stating that they are going to persuit this due to she is violating federal law, and public utility issues. Her co. is debt free, and will never obtain any outside credit, my thinking is should she even bother with finding a lawyer since she signed corporately, and it's a small co. with no debt? Any advise?

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    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    If the contract was with the company, then no she is not personally responsible. Still, read the contract carefully and make sure it is clearly between the comapny (not her) and the phone company ie make sure there isn't some sort of wording in the contract that she will pay on behalf of the company if the company does not pay.

    For the 2nd question, they can go after the company in court but even if they get a judgement its pretty hard to enforce. Unless at least a fair amount of money is at stake they probably won't bother. I wouldn't get a lawyer until you see some indication they are taking this to court (more than just words or a standard "please pay" collection letter).

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