Ifmy family is boarding horsesbut the owner hasn’t paid board in 4 months and hasn’t contacted my family at all, are the horses considered abandoned?
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Ifmy family is boarding horsesbut the owner hasn’t paid board in 4 months and hasn’t contacted my family at all, are the horses considered abandoned?
There is a verbal boarding agreement.
Asked on January 23, 2012 under Business Law, Ohio
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
In your situation, whether or not the horses may be considered abandoned if the owner has not paid board in over four months depends upon the facts that you are dealing with. Meaning, has the owner been around the horses the past four months?
Have you attempted to contact the owner and been unsuccessful during this time period? If the owner of the horses has simply vanished during this four month time period with you having no contact with him or her, then it seems that the horses have been abandoned by the owner. I suggest that you resume all efforts to contact the owner by calling and writing to him or her to see what the status is concerning the animals.
In the future, I recommend that you have written boarding agreement with all clients prepared by an attorney to help prevent the situation that you are writing about.
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