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Can a Debt Collection Law Firm Act as a Debt Collection Agency?

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When a debtor owes a creditor money and the creditor is seeking assistance collecting the amount owed, the creditor can either use a collection law firm or a collection agency. Law firms and collection agencies serve the same purpose initially.

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Attempting Debt Collection Efforts After a Debtor Files for Bankruptcy

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Are you or your collection attorney attempting debt collection efforts even though the debtor filed for bankruptcy? If so your collection attorney is exposing you, the law firm, and themselves to personal liability for a money judgment that could far exceed your claim. The debtor did not pay.

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Can I collect against a Massachusetts debtor if I’m from out of state?

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The process becomes even more problematic when your debtor is located in another state. Even if you do achieve a judgment in your own state, you have the added step of needing to domesticate the judgment in the debtor’s state. The experienced commercial collections attorneys at the Law Offices of Alan M.

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Ninth Circuit Partially Reverses Grant of Summary Judgment in Favor of Debt Collector in FDCPA Case

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District Court for the Southern District of California, granting summary judgment in favor of a debt collector in a Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA) case. In doing so, it held that a collection letter, which indicated that the debtor could only dispute the underlying debt in writing, violated the FDCPA.

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Collecting on a debt through a real estate attachment

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If you are having trouble collecting a commercial debt, you may wonder what you can do to make the debtor pay. The truth is, you have many tools available to you under Massachusetts law. The experienced commercial collections attorneys at the Law Offices of Alan M. Real estate attachments are a type of pre-judgment attachment.

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Bankruptcy Court Sanctions Collections Firm for Attempting to Collect Discharged Debt

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On January 19, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Virginia entered an order sanctioning a collections law firm for violating the bankruptcy discharge injunction. Gooch ( In re Skaggs ) awarded the debtor $25,000 in attorneys’ fees based on a letter he received concerning a discharged debt. Gooch, P.C.,

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How to Deal With the Deadbeat Shuffle

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Sometimes a debtor makes sporadic payments just to keep you from calling the Law Offices of Alan M. Sometimes the sporadic payments are because of your debtor’s cash flow. In short your debtor and not you are calling the tune and playing with your monies. We call this the deadbeat shuffle.

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