Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Florida

Re: Trying to get repaid

You would almost certainly have to sue her here. That alone may make it easiest for you to just chalk this up to one of life's lessons. Your burden, if you do sue, will be to prove that what you paid to her were legitimate loans, as opposed to gifts. The absence of anything in writing makes that a difficult issue to prove -- since most times that people laon $7K, there is something in writing. It would all boil down to who the judge believed.

Re: Trying to get repaid

You asked about recovering money loaned.

You can recover money lent without a note in many circumstances. You will have to provide corroborating evidence such as witnesses, emails or voice messages, even notes made on the memo lines of checks will help.

A court will not consider amounts where the benefit is ambiguous. Such as if loaned her $100 to take you both out to eat, that would not be collectable. But if you loaned her $1,000 to pay her rent (and you rented your own home) then you would probably be able to collect that amount.

You would definitely have to sue in the locale of the transactions.

It's worth pursuing, but probably not on your own. Hire an attorney to do it and you should collect something, rather than nothing. You've learned your lesson, don't listen to the little guy.

Regards,

Roger