The current version of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation does not provide for the separation of personal accounts in apartments with several owners. However, you can protect yourself from possible liability for non-fulfillment of obligations for utility payments by other owners of the living space by an agreement on the procedure for paying for utilities or a court decision.
Instructions
Step 1
With normal relations between the owners and the timely fulfillment of their obligations by each, oral agreements are sufficient. As a rule, services, the price of which depends on the area of the apartment, are paid in proportion to the size of the share of each owner, and depending on the number of registered ones - according to the number of family members of each of them who have registration at the place of residence in the apartment and other people whom he considered necessary to register with him. each of the owners.
Step 2
There is a great lack of verbal agreements - they will not come to the point, therefore, if conflicts nevertheless arise on this basis, it will be difficult for the parties to prove their case. It's a different matter if you can present an agreement, which spells out all the obligations of the owners in this part, signed by each of them.
An approximate text of the document can be found on the Internet or you can ask a lawyer for help in drafting it.
The law does not require notarization of the signatures under it, but for greater reliability it can be done.
After the demonstration of this document and the receipt for the timely payment of its prescribed part of the rent, bribes from you will be smooth, and all questions will be redirected to the true culprit.
Step 3
If it is not possible to agree, any of the owners has the right to apply for the establishment of the procedure for payment of utilities in court. To do this, you will need to draw up a statement of claim, pay a state duty and provide evidence in favor of your version of this very order (certificates of ownership with an indication of the share of each owner, data on the number registered from the house management, confirmation of who was the initiator of the registration of residents who are not owners, or confirmation of their belonging to the family of one or another owner, etc.).
After the entry into force of the court decision, this document will look even more convincing than the agreement.
