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When you're criminally accused, how do you pay your mortgage? (www.stuff.co.nz)

submitted 7 months ago by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[+] chairman@feddit.nl -13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 28 points 7 months ago

The peasants have no bread? smuglord Skill Issue. I would have simply eaten cake.

Proximate cause vs ultimate cause

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

It's an especially awful problem in America because we jail people for minor offenses so this impacts a lot of people that arguably should never be jailed anyways... and once you're jailed in the US there's a strong chance it will happen again and again.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 7 points 7 months ago

People who spend 2 years on the ISS are generally very well paid for it. They're not going to have any trouble covering their mortgage.

That is entirely different from having your ability to earn a living taken away by the state even while legally presumed innocent.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

It doesn't matter, you went against the narrative.