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20 Nov 2023, 9:00 pm
This Essay draws from on-the-ground interviews and procedural-justice theory to analyze judging practices in debt-collection courts. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 9:51 am
ABA Journal, Citing His Own Law School Debt, Obama Expands Repayment Caps on Student Loans: President Barack Obama has signed an executive order expanding a 2010 law that capped student-loan repayments for newer government-backed loans at 10 percent of the borrower’s monthly income. [read post]
1 Jan 2012, 4:56 pm
A Florida judge assigned to the case found in her favor after weighing facts that West Asset harassed the widow when it tried to collect a debt her deceased husband owed to [...] [read post]
17 Apr 2010, 7:23 pm
Debt collectors have limits on what they can do that are established by law. [read post]
26 May 2016, 5:06 pm
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding recent amendments to the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), seeking comment on among other things: (1) which calls are covered by the phrase “solely to collect” under the amendments; (2) the meaning of the phrase “a debt owed to or […]Ralph T. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 2:28 pm
The two main ways associations can collect involuntarily are through either a bank garnishment orGo to Article The post SB22-086: How a Single Section of This Bill Could Impact All Debt Collections for Associations appeared first on Altitude Community Law. [read post]
18 Jan 2010, 8:00 pm
Question: My wife and I are separated but agreed to delay the divorce until we pay down debt. [read post]
3 Sep 2018, 12:31 am
Mother Jones, The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story of America’s Student Debt Machine: Why is the nation’s flagship loan forgiveness program failing the people it’s supposed to help? [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 10:55 am
Ratliff [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that an award of attorney's fees and expenses under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) [28 USC § 2412] is payable to the prevailing party rather than to the party's attorneys and can therefore be used to satisfy a preexisting debt owed to the government. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 8:00 pm
Financially, we are very strapped for cash (near bankruptcy) since she has run us into debt with a home remodeling that went 100% over budget. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 2:03 pm
When Congress passed bankruptcy “reform” in 2005, it included provisions requiring consumer bankruptcy lawyers to call themselves “Debt Relief Agencies,” restricting the information we could provide our clients, and adding all sorts of disclosures and disclaimers that did little more than generate lots and lots of paper. [read post]
20 Mar 2023, 8:01 am
March 15 was the deadline for the New York State Department of Financial Services to publish its proposed amendments to its debt collection rule. [read post]
15 Apr 2019, 6:01 am
The post Investigation of Duke Energy and Others – Refusing Service Based Upon A Relative’s Debt or Identity Theft appeared first on Raleigh Attorneys Representing Plaintiffs. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 8:44 pm
In 2006, the FTC received over 69,000 complaints about unfair debt collection practices. [read post]
7 May 2025, 9:20 am
The CFPB says it wants to scrap a Biden Administration rule that prohibits credit reporting agencies from including medical debts on credit reports, one of many Biden era rules that the Trump Administration has sought to nullify. [read post]
ND Indiana Grants Class Cert. Over Objections as to Standing, Commonality of Injury, ‘Consumer’ Debt
28 May 2018, 8:39 am
District Court for the Northern District of Indiana recently concluded that the objective “unsophisticated consumer” standard applicable in the Seventh Circuit for whether there was a material misrepresentation under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) parallels the commonality requirement for class certification under Fed. [read post]
15 Aug 2009, 10:21 am
At a 341 meeting the trustee may ask, “You have $80,000 in credit card debt, what do you have to show for it. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 9:39 pm
A panel of New York state court judges has once again denied Robert Bowman's application to be admitted to the practice of law in that state, citing lack of "character and fitness" due to his unusually large student loan debt of $480,000. [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 9:22 am
We’ve written at length about how faltering debt markets could damp the buyout boom of recent years. [read post]
30 Aug 2009, 11:32 pm
One of the most enduring myths about the law is that spouses are legally responsible for each other’s debts — but it simply isn’t true, not even in a community property state. [read post]
