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Don't shoot the messenger. A check doesn't get paid, he is doing everyone else a service telling us about it. I don't believe he even needs to attempt to contact the issuer because at that point they have already screwed up and apparently made no attempt to fix it. Someone doesn't want to be knocked on the boards, behave professionally.
Okay, so you open a new bank account. That doesn't mean you have to clear the old one and let already issued checks bounce. If you don't want to or cannot go that route, do a reconciliation to see whose checks haven't cleared, contact them and issue new ones immediately. Don't wait for them to chase you.
And it's irrelevant how he came to be owed the money. Money is money.
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