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Expert: Creditwrench - 10/27/2008


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My fiancee is about to have her wages garnished by her ex-husband from a judgement in North Carolina from 2001.  Her ex and she both reside here in AZ.  I researched the North Carolina statute of limitations on judgements and it says five years.  I believe Arizona's is longer, so my question is if the timeline for enforcing it in N.C. has expired, is it still legal for them to garnish the wages and attempt to enforce it in AZ?

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You are asking a question that requires a legal opinion and I'm not a lawyer so can't give you any legal opinions or legal advice.

Be that as it may, I'm coming up with an idea that if it can be will absolutely stop all garnishment of wages and maybe more. It will probably take at least two or three months to put it into effect however. If it can be made to work that is and at this time it is still an awfully big "IF"  

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Debt Collections law, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), federal law, how to properly answer court summons for collection cases, how to prepare federal cases against debt collectors, how to deal with debt collection phone calls.

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I've been an active consumer advocate for more than 40 years and have helped hundreds of people win cases against debt collectors as well as helping them defeat demands for summary judgment lodged against them by banks, debt collectors and defeat mortgage foreclosures and keep their homes.

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Paralegal courses for the most part.
I have been teaching people how to deal with judgments, mortgage foreclosures and other such problems both on and off the internet for many, many years. I am a Richard Cornforth information provider ever since 2000 and worked with many other organizations and causes since 1980. I was Oklahoma State Chairman for the nationwide drive to defeat the Constitutional Convention which was proposed by various factions within our federal government such as the Council of State Governments and the National Organization of State Governors who were working hard to organize a Constitutional Convention to be held in 1995 for the purpose of rewriting our American Constitution to be more acceptable to the United Nations. I worked with Senator Charles Duke of Colorado and Senator Don Rogers of California and many others across the nation to keep them from getting the number of delegate states required to lawfully hold a Con-Con and we were successful. I have worked with many other legislative issues in Oklahoma and have always been very successful.

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