Will My Economic stimulus check be forwarded to me at my new address?

Does my landlord need to notify me that he is placing a stop payment on my security deposit refund check?

• I moved out of my apartment September 1st but did not have a forwarding address to provide to the landlord. Once I did get my new mailing address, I set up a forwarding service through the post office. My landlord mailed my security deposit reimbursement check to my old address at their complex but the check did not get forwarded to my new address until about 10/24. In the meantime, I spoke to the old landlord and asked where my check was. They determined the check had gone to the old address and asked me for my new address. I provided the new address and 2 business days later I got the refund check. Not realizing this was the "original" mailing, I went ahead and deposited the check. A week or so later I find out the old landlord had placed a stop payment on the original check and issued a new one. This would have been fine except that they stopped pay on the check and it resulted in me overdrawing my checking account. $450 worth of overdraft fees later I asked the old landlord why they never notified me they would be stopping payment on the original check. if they had I would have managed my finances accordingly. Do I have any legal recourse since they did not make a good faith effort to notify me of the stop payment?

• Answer:

  They had no duty to inform you that they were stopping payment on the original check because as far as they knew, you were never going to receive that check. They also told you that they would be sending you a second check (which is why they obtained your new address) so any idiot could have deduced that they would have stopped payment on the first check. You have no legal recourse. You also have a very bizarre understanding of other people's responsibility to manage your affairs.