Bankruptcy

By the Numbers: 1,064,927 Consumer Bankruptcies in '08 ... Number Likely to Climb in '09
Last year overall consumer bankruptcy filing topped 1,064,927, according to the National Bankruptcy Research Center...

The Future of Consumer Credit...Today
We need to look at the net picture when we evaluate whether the terms of consumer credit are improving or worsening, but at the same time we need to recognize that within that net picture there may be some winners and some losers...

Consumer Credit Explodes in June, Further Proving Consumer Claims Unfounded
Despite what a recent Javelin Strategy & Research online survey suggested about consumer credit use being down in the midst of the nation's current economic struggles, recently-released Federal Reserve numbers for the month of June reveal quite the opposite about consumer credit.

Credit After Bankruptcy
Recently, an associate professor of law at the University of Iowa, Katherine Porter wrote that “credit solicitations of recent bankruptcy debtors is rampant...

The Future of Consumer Credit in the US
During these few posts we've been writing about aspects of consumer credit today in the US...

Consumer Credit Code update
The MCCA has agreed to refinements to the Consumer Credit Code. The amendments are intended to enhance the operation of the Consumer Credit Code by: Tightening current exemptions to the Code for short term credit and pawnbrokers ; Dealing with...

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

Bankruptcy Law
A complete prime (pre-2005)

How to Stop Home Foreclosure
Bankruptcy can Stop Foreclosure

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Collection Agencies and Creditors
How to deal and stop the harassment

Federal Adoption Tax Credit
Financial Incentive for Adoptive Parents

My fiance's check is DD into a local credit union. Bank seems to have a pattern of "invisibly holding" charges from the debit card until just HOURS before his DD is processed (and this is after hours, of course). Over th
Have your fiance take the information you've collected and go into the bank...

My father died and left my mother $200,000 (life insurance) My Mother died 2 years later leaving my sister and I with both about $75,000 each. (including house/vehicles/belongings which I never got). We were supposed to
File a police report. Two police reports, one for you and one for your sister. G...

Must I refinance my house aftering taking full ownership after a divorce via a quit claim?
When financing there are at least two documents...the mortgage and the note. The...

Should I return a phone call from a collection agency that doesn't name their client in the message?
In the county of the state where I live in the US, I am able to go to the websit...

My house has bee sold at a sheriff sale the proceeds of the sale covered the first mortgage. Am i still required to pay the second mortgage?
You are indeed still responsible for the home loan that was not paid through the...

Cash4Gold Hit with Consumer Fraud Class Action
Cash4Gold Hit with Consumer Fraud Class Action

CVS
Consumer Products Sold Past Their Expirey Dates

Mexican Vanilla Containing Coumarin
, FDA Issues Consumer Update

Ford Focus
Consumer Class Action Settles for Cash Refunds

AmeriGas, Blue Rhino
Face Consumer Class Action

Germantown Primary Care Associates, P.C.
Unlawfully collected fees refunded in Consumer Protection Act violation suit.