Peter Bilyk, a lawyer of  "Aleksey Pukha & Partners" about the fact of passing debts to the new owner of apartment  by ZhEK

"Good day," Yurlikbez! "In February 2004 a court decision, I went back to his own room in the apartment, which was bequeathed to me in 1996. In 2001-2005. There had been prescribed an outsider. All the while, he never paid for utilities. Accounting housing department requires me to pay this debt. Housing department officials are right there, and why the debt, which is more than 5 years, has not yet been written off? "- Natalia.

Advises Peter Bilyk, a lawyer of "Aleksey Pukha & Partners":

"The actions of staff housing department illegitimate. Relations in the sphere of housing and communal services are carried out solely on a contractual basis. You as a consumer must sign a contract for the provision of housing services, which shall be prepared by the Executive on the basis of the model contract, according to Part 3. 20 memory "about the housing and utilities."

That is, you are responsible only in accordance with the agreement between you (as a consumer) and ZhEKom (as performer), which comes into force upon its signing by the due date. You do not have to pay for housing and communal services of another contract in which you are not a customer. You're right, that this debt is to pay the person to whom this duty is assigned by the court.

As for your question on the term of limitation: according to Art. 257 of the Civil Code, the period is 3 years. Thus, the debt may be recovered for the three years preceding the date of filing a lawsuit.

Based on the above, we propose to appeal to the housing office on the illegitimacy of the debt charges. If it does not help - in the local government (the place of registration), in Minregionstroy or else the court. "

The opinion of the Company in the newspaper "Today", 06/18/2012