Owe money to bank in overdraft charges, civil or criminal case?

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Country: United States of America
State: New Jersey

I owe a bank 1000.00 in over draft charges and they have now mad a complaint about me is this a criminal cases or a civil case if it is criminal is there jail time

Answer

It normally is civil unless you were purposely writing bad checks.

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