In North Carolina, medical debt judgments can last for 20 years and automatically place liens against patients’ homes, allowing hospitals to collect their money when the home is sold. Medical debts ...

Debt collectors have been known to call family members ... Aside from the constant stress weighing over you, bad credit ...

Original creditors — say, a credit card or utilities company — sell their delinquent accounts to debt collection agencies to ...

After Congress allowed the Internal Revenue Service to hire private debt collectors to handle severely delinquent taxpayer accounts, a number of critics – including the IRS Taxpayer Advocate ...

Bad credit can make it difficult to qualify for new credit. Pay for delete is an agreement to pay down debt in return for ...

It depends on whether the debt you're behind on is your mortgage (that can be very bad) or your credit cards ... Your debt will go to a collection agency. Debt collectors will contact you.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. If there is a good place ... "However, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act allows collectors to discuss such debts with the deceased person's family." ...

Local prosecutors have no role in civil debt collection lawsuits. But they have a central role when it comes to money owed due to bounced checks. Every state has criminal laws dealing with bad or ...

It's my first week on the job as a debt collector ... If a debtor still won't pay, we play a version of good cop/bad cop. Two collectors will team up on one call, with one posing as a hard ...

Chances are that you have never heard the terms Zombie Debt or Zombie Debt Collectors. Neither had former United States Marine Lt. Charles Lay until the first week of October 2018, when he receive ...