how foolish was i to give a lawyer my checking account routing number?

Question

i owe a credit card debt. i spoke to the lawyer in charge and we set up an agreement for me to pay it. he said i had to give him my checking account routing number and he would take fifty dollars a month out for this bill. i agreed. now he is taking me to court. i did everything he asked and ium afraid he will take the remainder which is 1000 straight out of my checking account , of which i share with my elderly mom. im more than willing to pay this bill. I just am afraid they will take everything out of my checking account and my mom wont have her socail security money. what can i do if anything?

this lawyer said he needed to have the routing number, that it was what the court wanted to keep me from going to court. im a hairdresser, not a lawyer. i feel bad enough as it is

Answer 1

I would go to the bank and change my account if your worried, close that one and set up a new one. Then I would contact another lawyer!!

Answer 2

Yes. The bank's A.B.A. (American Bankers' Association) routing/transit number is the same nine digits bank-wide. Your savings and checking account numbers will, of course, be different numbers used in addition to the bank's ABA routing number. And finding out what your bank's ABA routing number is, after 5:00 PM, can be quite a challenge if your bank doesn't furnish it on their web site or in their literature (which most do not)!! Thomas' Banking Directory, a hard-cover reference book available at any GOOD, well-equipped public library (not many are that good), will usually have this information unless your bank is a new one created/chartered after the book's edition was printed. Also, bank wires are not instantaneous like phone calls or telegrams. They actually take several hours to a day and a half. "Wire" is actually a misnomer. The funds go through several complicated steps involving the Federal Reserve, hence the $ 14.-and-up fee for a bank wire transfer. For you, simply reading the routing number off the bottom of your check will give you what you need, as long as you make sure it is nine digits and you can tell it apart from your checking account number. The routing number is first (at lower left), and your checking account number follows that.

Answer 3

Go to the bank and close your accounts today. If your mom's SS is directly deposited into that account, go to the Social Security office immediately after opening a new account and update your deposit information. I had to do the same thing when my identity was stolen. Also, anyone taking money from your account without your permission, even if they have the routing number, is stealing, and it's FDIC insured by the bank so you'll get the money back, and the police should be informed.

Answer 4

FIRST thing you do is open a separate checking account for your mother, under HER name alone, and then contact SS to direct all future payments to THAT account. You might consider taking some money from YOUR account and transferring it to mother's as well. He won't be able to touch an account in her name, and won't know any of the information as to where the money is. Do this MONDAY MORNING at the very moment the bank opens for business.

Answer 5

Take the rest of ur & Mom's money out of that account and don't feel too foolish --attorneys are notorious for being dishonest --not all but some

Answer 6

Contact a lawyer (another one!)
Anyway, never give a lawyer ur checking account routing number!!!

Break a leg,
Kisses,
-CrazilyMad

Answer 7

Not foolish at all. Your checks have the bank's routing number printed on them, so even if you wrote a check he would know the routing number.

Answer 8

I don't think foolish is the word for it...

Answer 9

pretty foolish