Can I charge my ex-wife storage fees for items that she has left on my property?
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Can I charge my ex-wife storage fees for items that she has left on my property?
I’m going through the end of a divorce. My ex has items she has yet to pick up even after a court date was set for her to pick these things up. Can I charge storage fees; its been 18 months now. I have given her more then enough time.
Asked on July 4, 2011 under Family Law, Louisiana
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Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Have you written your former wife a letter asking that the left behind items be picked up by a certain date? If not, you need to say so and that if she fails to do so, she would be charged a certain amount per day for the items you are storing for her from that day forward.
You can charge your ex-wife fees, but to have any possibility to get them paid in a small claims action should you wish to bring one, you need to put her on actual notice of the daily rate starting from a date certain.
You could also state in the letter that if the items are not removed from your home by a certain date, you will deem them abandoned and will donate them to charity, sell them, give them to friends or discard them into the dumpster. You actually might get a response to such a letter.
Good luck.
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