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27 Jun 2011, 4:39 pm by slemberg
Over the past year, we’ve noted a trend: in order to close budget gaps, municipalities have increasingly turned to debt collection agencies to collect back fines. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 9:01 pm
  As mentioned at "Badges Of Fraud In Debt Collection, Divorce & Bankruptcy", the badges include: a close relationship between the parties; a transfer outside the ordinary scope of business; inadequate consideration; knowledge of a creditor's claim; and retention of control of property. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 8:33 am
As Santa Ana unfair debt collection attorneys, we were pleased to see another report about a debt collector facing penalties for serious wrongdoing. [read post]
13 Oct 2008, 6:00 pm
But we were interested to read recently that the firm recently settled charges that it violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, a federal law our Chicago, Naperville and Oak Brook debt collection abuse prevention lawyers work with often in our Chicago consumer rights litigation practice. [read post]
20 Jul 2020, 9:13 am by Kaufman Dolowich Voluck
Colorado enacted a new law on June 30, 2020 which requires the following new disclosure in initial written communications with consumers:  “FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLORADO FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, SEE HTTPS://COAG.GOV/OFFICE-SECTIONS/CONSUMER-PROTECTION/CONSUMER-CREDIT-UNIT/COLLECTION-AGENCY-REGULATION/. [read post]
2 May 2019, 5:55 am by Sara E. Teller
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will soon be rolling out new guidelines for debt collectors to follow. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 8:54 am
The Minnesota Supreme Court will answer three questions put to it by the federal district court: (1) may a judgment creditor serve a garnishment summons on a joint account to satisfy the debt of an account holder when not all of the account holders are judgment debtors; (2) if so, is it the judgment creditor or the account holders who bear the burden of establishing net contributions to the account during the garnishment proceeding; and (3) if so, what applicable presumptions regarding… [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 2:00 am by Jason Wiggam + Team
Congress has mandated that the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) begin using private companies to collect delinquent tax debts. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 6:17 am by Todd S. Garber
   While the bankruptcy allowed Hollywood Video to contract with a liquidating trustee to collect an estimated $244 million in debts reportedly owed by 3.3 million customers nationwide, much of the previous collection efforts failed to comply with the law, as collection notices were added to customers’ credit files without warning. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 6:17 am by Todd S. Garber
   While the bankruptcy allowed Hollywood Video to contract with a liquidating trustee to collect an estimated $244 million in debts reportedly owed by 3.3 million customers nationwide, much of the previous collection efforts failed to comply with the law, as collection notices were added to customers’ credit files without warning. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 6:17 am by Todd S. Garber
   While the bankruptcy allowed Hollywood Video to contract with a liquidating trustee to collect an estimated $244 million in debts reportedly owed by 3.3 million customers nationwide, much of the previous collection efforts failed to comply with the law, as collection notices were added to customers’ credit files without warning. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 5:07 am
As a result, we hear all kinds of crazy stories about creditors using underhanded tactics to collect on a debt. [read post]
15 May 2012, 9:34 am by slemberg
Department of Education provides to third-party debt collection agencies, and the impact that those incentives have those with student loan debt. [read post]
21 Apr 2021, 9:03 pm by Oliver Paprin
Unlike private lenders, the government can sue defaulted borrowers for the rest of their lives to collect unpaid debt. [read post]
8 Apr 2017, 11:13 am by lennyesq
The new program, enacted by Congress, enables designated contractors to collect, on the government’s behalf, unpaid tax debts. [read post]
9 Dec 2006, 7:35 am
Moral of the Story for Debt Collectors - If you are collecting on any consumer contract that contains a provision for attorneys fees you must make an election to either 1. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 8:40 am by *
A debtor can under the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act inform a collection agency that he or she has no intention of paying the debt and to cease all contact. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 2:00 am by slemberg
Our client alleges that the debt collector called her in an attempt to collect a debt owed by her ex-husband. [read post]