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Law school graduate, Juris Doctorate (J.D.) Degree; Over 25 years of experience throughout the United States in bankruptcy law matters (Chapters 7, 11, and 13 of the United States Bankruptcy Code) primarily representing individual debtors with consumer debt or small businesses; Experience has included all aspects of debtor/creditor relations.

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Collections Law - Judgement Letter


Expert: John Hall - 5/12/2006

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My husband was just served a letter from an attrny office in SC collecting a credit card debt.  My husband took out this credit card about 12 yrs ago and it was in default not too many years afterwards - Our daughter was born with medical problems, etc - which is not excuse i know - we were late in our payments for years, but we never saw the amount come down - just kept going up - we have paid this for years, but we have not paid anything in about 2-3 yrs - the charges we actually charged were about $2,000 and now an attrny states we owe $5100. We can not pay this amount in full.  Should we contact this atrrny office - will they set up payment plan now or what is the next step for us?  

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Under these circumstances it would probably not be a good idea to call the attorney for the collectors.  He is just going to want you to pay more -  and under these circumstances you may be able to get this whole debt behind you without paying anything more.    Call me if you like.  I will not charge you just to talk on the phone.  My cell number isx 661  492-2673     I can explain your options to you in more detail on the phone.

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