{"product_id":"vragen-35550-in-april-2014-heb-ik-per-ongeluk-een-verkeerd-rekening-door-gegeven-aan-een-vriend-van-mij-waardoor","title":"Starting a debt collection procedure: tips and advice","description":"\u003ch4\u003e Questioner\u003c\/h4\u003e \nIn April 2014, I accidentally passed on the wrong account to a friend of mine, which means that E1,448 is now in the account of a 12-year-old girl. The bank then gave us the address of the recipient, so that we could claim the money back ourselves. This was not successful, as the family situation is rather complicated. The father is a fairground operator and as far as I know, he spends a lot of time outside the Netherlands. Furthermore, as far as I know, the parents are no longer together and so there are two addresses, for the mother and the father of the child, which means that it is quite possible that the registered letters did not end up at the right address. In any case, it is quite possible that one of the parents does have access to our money and the other knows nothing about it.\n\n After much searching via social media and Google I finally managed to find the mother's email address. However, she only indicated that she would 'look into it', after which I never heard from her again.\n \nI know that filing a report is pointless since this case is civil and not criminal. The question now is what to do? Hiring a debt collection agency seems to me to be the right path to take.\n\n\u003ch4\u003e Lawyer\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n You are right. You need to start a collection\/procedure. This can be done via a collection agency but also via a lawyer who can do this for you.\n\n\u003ch4\u003e Lawyer\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n If you cannot reach an agreement with the parents, there is little left but to call in third parties for help.\n\n\u003ch4\u003e Lawyer\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n I am reading your message again now and I am in doubt about who should start a collection procedure. I suspect that friend of yours, because he made the payment (if I understand correctly). We can discuss this further in our further contact.\n\n","brand":"Rechtswinkel.nl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55016316666205,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rechtswinkel.nl\/en\/products\/vragen-35550-in-april-2014-heb-ik-per-ongeluk-een-verkeerd-rekening-door-gegeven-aan-een-vriend-van-mij-waardoor","provider":"Rechtswinkel.nl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}