{"id":2984,"date":"2025-11-19T09:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:53:01","slug":"limitation-period-after-how-long-does-a-debt-become-time-barred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/en\/limitation-period-after-how-long-does-a-debt-become-time-barred\/","title":{"rendered":"Limitation period \u2013 after how long does a debt become \u201ctime-barred\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In business transactions, it\u2019s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that a signed contract or issued invoice fully secures your interests. In reality, civil law works differently \u2013 most claims have their own \u201cexpiry date.\u201d The limitation period is one of those legal concepts that seems straightforward at first glance, yet in practice raises many doubts. This leads to questions such as: does every invoice really have a lifespan of 3 or 6 years? When does the limitation period begin? Can its running be interrupted? And why can a simple request to pay in instalments sometimes reset the entire process?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-of-contracts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milewska.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}