Obviously, I am not in this situation. Related article, wondering what is happening to this woman’s house/loans/expenses/rent/car payments/etc

So before conviction, when you’re being held pending court proceedings, it would be inconvenient to attend your work place during that time. So I’m wondering, what happens?

If you’re found not guilty after months of court hearings, are you just fucked over completely because the bank foreclosed on your house?

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    This is one part of the vicious cycle of excessive imprisonment in the US. You generally don’t. If you’re imprisoned your rent or mortgage will lapse and if you can’t afford to absorb the payments with savings you may be forced to sell or release the property to avoid going into debt… then when you get out you’ll have no where to go.

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        8 months ago

        Well, this is not a US problem or a prison problem. It’s fundamentally a problem where you don’t pay your mortgage. If you decide to go to the international space station for 2 years and not pay your mortgage during that time, you will get your house foreclosed.

        Pay your mortgage and if you are not able to do it yourself, get someone to do it for you.

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        8 months ago

        What happens to your home/property in other countries when you’re incarcerated for extended periods of time?

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          In india there is no law barring from paying/owning property from jail.

          There is no difference between defaulting weather you are in jail or not.

          It would be treated as if you ran off in case you don’t respond and fail to pay the required payments, things would proceed accordingly.

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            8 months ago

            There’s no law in the US stopping you from paying from jail either. If you have the money.

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              8 months ago

              Yeah there’s no law preventing it but you wouldn’t have the ability to write a check or to send money by Zelle, as an example. You would need someone outside the jail to make those payments on your behalf.

              Edit: I wonder why people are downvoting me. When someone is arrested and put in jail they just can’t do normal things. Maybe some people eventually get computer access in prison but realistically you couldn’t depend on it

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        8 months ago

        You still haven’t answered what happens in other countries. Everyone else is saying it’s the same process.