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in ohio can you hold a disabled person under a contract dealing with money if they are on disability?

i know someone who is loaning a disabled person 1,000 dollars and they need to know if you can hold a disabled person under a contract if it is notarized.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Notarized or not, the answer to your question is NO. If this disabled person decides to not honor the contract and this goes to court, the judge can issue a judgement but the person that loaned the $1000.00 will never be able to collect the money. Disability money can not be garnished.

  • 1 decade ago

    Disabled can mean many things. A PHYSICAL disability would not affect a contract in any way. In case of a mental disability, it would depend on if the person were legally competent to enter a binding contract in the first place. Having the contract notarized only confirms WHO signed the document. The Notary CAN'T legally determine the person is legally competent.

  • 1 decade ago

    A debt is a debt if you're disabled or not. By giving/loaning the person who's on disability, the person on disability just broke the cardinal rule of how much money he was granted from disability. In other words a person on disability receives a certain amount of money each month. That person is allowed to work and make a certain amount of money which should be reported to disability. I'm sure this person on disability hasn't report the loan he has received. Even if you are on disability, if you don't pay your light bills they shut off your lights. Bills still need to be payed.

    If the person who loaned the money under contract he/she has even a better leg to stand on. If he/she wants their $1,000 back the disabled person can be taken to small claims court or be reported to the Disability system. I suspect he'll choose the 2nd. He/she has received money that hasn't been reported to disability. He'll be made to pay it back or what ever they choose to do.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If it's notarized, as long as the person has not been, or is not later, declared to be incompetent by a judge, then yes, they are legally liable for the loan if it is not paid off by the terms described within the contract. Coz you have proof they signed for it. I'm guessing you're not a bank....

    Also, people on SSDI are allowed to make extra money up to a certain amount, without it being fraud.

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  • 1 decade ago

    there are a number of elements, 5 I think, that pertain to all contracts to make them enforceable. I would look up the issue of "specific performance".

    I don't think a notary is worth much of anything. All they do is witness you signing something, and both parties need to sign and all the elements of Contract Law need to be there to make the contract enforceable.

    Tell that "someone" to put themselves in the disabled person's shoes and think about what that person would do to get something for nothing. It could come to that.

    Remember that legally "if you don't get it in writing, it never happened".

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    5 years ago

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