Wife Forged Name On Credit Cards (HELP!)?

Question

My brother needs help. I'll try to make the history quick. Wife of 28 years wants divorce out of the blue. He does a credit check and finds she forged his name to several credit cards and ran up about 60K in debt. Also found out IRS has a 30K tax lean against his house on her (not him, they file seperate).

Afraid of credit fraud charges, she signs divorce papers to take responsibility for all but 17K of credit cards (two cards my brother had opened himself, but didn't know anything was on them). Now those two cards are saying debt is like 30K, and he is also getting calls from the debt she signed the court order for. Companies are threatening to garnish his wages, etc. She is hiding out (but working as a nurse) so they are coming after thim. Divorce is finalized. She won't even respond to offers on the house, one of which was 100K.

How does he make those cards he's not responsible for get off his back? And how does he work out the debt with the others? Divorce lawyer is clueless.

Answer 1

File criminal charges against her. Get a new divorce lawyer.

Answer 2

He needs an attorney who sepcializes in criminal law as well as a better divorce lawyer. If she forged his name, it's time to file criminal charges. The credit card companies will NOT get off his back unless he does so.

Answer 3

he can't make the cc company leave him alone until he file charges of fraud, provide the paperwork to the cc company and then they will have to remove that from his credit file

but he first need to file charges and take her to court and make sure the court states that fraud has been committed

no person is held accountable for fraud on their credit

Answer 4

close those accounts down and reopen new in his name. explain to creditors that his name was forged.

Answer 5

the first step
be smart
close the accounts and reopen in his name
second step
sue for fraud
Get that *****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!