When you're criminally accused, how do you pay your mortgage?
When you're criminally accused, how do you pay your mortgage?
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?
I had a friend a long time ago who was arrested for shoplifting and was unable to post bail due to this being like a second or third charge. He was evicted from his apartment while he was in. He released his key to me from jail, and another friend and I went and moved out as much of his important stuff as we could, and the apartment complex threw away the rest. If we hadn't been there to help him, he would've lost literally everything, computer, passport, guitar, you name it.
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.
I fucking hate US
You still haven't answered what happens in other countries. Everyone else is saying it's the same process.
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.
Incident in question didn't happen in the US.
It fucks your whole life up even if you're eventually found innocent.
I'm not a fan of carceral solutions but this is not something only abolitionists should care about. Remand (and also, short prison sentences) are viciously unfair, causing disproportionate harm which can never be compensated for.
Most likely you lose your home if you can't pay for it due to being in jail, however having a home with a mortgage and a job that pays enough and a history of paying, will all generally work in a defendants favor in terms of getting out on bail. If the court can trust you enough to be on house arrest then that's usually better for everyone.
That's the neat part: You don't!
some apartments have an clause to break the lease early. others may only allow for a friend or family to enter your apt.