by Tom Bates | May 31, 2018 | blog, Blog: Bankruptcy
If you have to obtain a bankruptcy discharge after declaring either Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy, you are likely anxious to begin the process but are uncertain about how to proceed. While there are numerous areas in which questions arise, one of the most common...
by Tom Bates | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog: Bankruptcy
Debt collectors are known to use a variety of scare tactics to force individuals into paying a debt. A recent Supreme Court case, however, issued a decision on how to define the role of debt collectors. In the case of Midland Funding LLC v. Johnson, the Court held...
by Tom Bates | Jun 23, 2017 | blog
The Supreme Court recently ruled that the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) prohibits individuals who think that they are experiencing abusive debt collection practices to initiate legal actions against banks have bought defaulted loans from other lenders....