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Can Legal Garnishments Be Reversed or Stopped in Florida?
Nightmare Scenario #1: You check your bank balance on payday. Instead of the hundreds or thousands of dollars you expect, you find a ZERO BALANCE. Nightmare Scenario #2: You open the envelope containing your paycheck. Instead of the expected...
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Three Reasons Debt Collectors Love Tax Season: Your Refund, Your Refund, and Your Refund
Lots of folks do big numbers during tax season: car dealers, accountants, furniture stores, the IRS…and debt collectors. Think about it–have you been getting more debt collection phone calls lately? Are they more persistent and more insistent? Debt...
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When Debt Collectors Call, DON’T Hang Up
I just read a personal finance advice piece on Reuters.com that gave, in my opinion, stunningly BAD personal finance advice. The piece was titled “When Debt Collectors Call, Hang Up”. Huh? The author of the piece tells how his 80-year-old father...
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Debt Collector Telephone Abuse of the Older and Retired: Don’t Get Mad, Do Something!
I watched the above video and read the accompanying article from the WSPA Channel 7 website with interest. Apparently, this fellow has been getting collections calls from “at least six” debt collectors on his home phone number for over a year a...
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Debt Collector Telephone Scams: What Are They? How To Respond?
A few days ago, a client mentioned an odd voicemail message he received offering a “tax relief program” in relation to an alleged debt on a credit card he possessed years ago. “Tell me more,” I said. My client related the conversation he had with...
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Does “Sewer Service” Happen in Miami Debt Collection Lawsuits? As Sarah Palin Would Say, “You Betcha!”
I love it when slang from the credit and collections industry hits the mainstream news. All of a sudden, everybody who knows that I’m a credit card debt defense lawyer, from the mailman to my Facebook friends, starts asking questions about what...
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