Suwon Civil Litigation Attorney Assistance | Assisting a Client Facing an Unjust Consolation Money Claim and Securing a Reduction

The client had a partner with whom he had lived for nearly a year.

One day, however, the former partner abruptly announced a breakup and told the client to move out of the home they had shared.

The client was taken aback but, in order to end the relationship as amicably as possible, first moved out of the home.

Because he left in a hurry, however, the client had not gathered all of his belongings, and when he went a few days later to retrieve them, the former partner had changed the door lock code.

In the end, the client tried to contact the former partner out of necessity, but the former partner continued not to respond.

When the client contacted the former partner several more times to retrieve his belongings, the former partner reported the client on a stalking charge, the charge was recognized, and the client received a fine.

The former partner then claimed consolation money from the client on the grounds of the stalking harm and shared living expenses.

Feeling this was unfair, the client came to a Suwon civil litigation attorney to obtain legal help and resolve the matter.

If someone causes physical or psychological harm to a victim, as the client did, civil liability may follow even after criminal liability has been fulfilled through a fine, an actual sentence, or the like.

In the client's case, he was faced with a claim for both compensation for the harm caused by stalking and damages for the expenditures incurred during the period of cohabitation.

In such a case, whether there was an agreement on sharing the expenditures during the period of cohabitation, and how to calculate the civil loss derived from the 🔗stalking punishment, may become the issues.

When complex losses such as these arise and a consolation money claim is faced, obtaining the assistance of an attorney to closely review the legal issues and prepare a response can be helpful.

The plaintiff treated only the living expenses she had spent during the period of cohabitation as the shared expenditures, and demanded that the client repay half of them.

In fact, the client had also spent living expenses during the period of cohabitation, purchasing utilities, food, daily necessities, and the like under the heading of living expenses.

The Suwon civil litigation attorney argued that the living expenses claimed by the plaintiff were calculated very one-sidedly and were therefore unfair.

The client's stalking charge was recognized and he was punished, and although the client is deeply remorseful for it, the fact is that the client's main reason for contacting the plaintiff was to retrieve his belongings.

The Suwon civil litigation attorney emphasized that one cause of the stalking conduct committed by the client was that the plaintiff would not return his belongings and had changed the lock code.