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Someone recently paid off a debt that had with me and gave me a post dated check, is it illegal to post date a check?

There is no law that prohibits the issuance of a post-dated check. There are laws against issuing checks when the partying delivering this check knows that they don’t have funds to cover it. Using postdated checks in general is never a good business, since it is perfectly acceptable for the bank to pay a check even when it’s postdated.

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