Garnishments and Your Rights Fact Sheet C-4
By: Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis
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Your Debt Collection Rights Fact Sheet C-3
By: Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis
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Income and Property Protected from Creditors
What types of property and income are protected from creditors when they are collecting debts?
By: Senior Law Project - Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services
Dealing With Debt
Questions to answers about debt and debt collection.
By: Senior Law Project - Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services
Spousal Liability for Debts
Answers to questions about rules on responsibility for debts of spouse.
By: Senior Law Project - Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services
What Types of Property are Exempt from Creditors?
Unexpected medical bills, the death of a spouse, or a sudden reduction of income due to a forced retirement can generate more debts than a senior citizen on a fixed income can pay.
By: Senior Law Project - Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services
Question & Answer Column
Am I Liable for My Husband's Debts?
My husband recently died, leaving behind an unpaid credit card debt. Now I am getting telephone calls from a collection agency telling me that I am responsible for my husband's credit card debt. What can I do?
By: Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota-Duluth
Debt Management Services
By: Senior Law Project - Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services
Booklets
The Credit Handbook
(Separate Website)
A comprehensive look at credit: how to get a copy of your credit reports, articles about many credit issues, link to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and more.
By: Minnesota Attorney General's Office
Legal Information by Phone
Wage Garnishment
By calling Tel-Law, you can listen over the phone about wage garnishment. Many other topics are also available.
By: Hennepin County Bar Association
Other Helpful Resources
Beware of Phony Collection Scams
(Separate Website)
Americans are now more in debt than at any other time in history. The recent and dramatic increase in consumer debt has spawned hundreds of new credit-related scams.
By: Minnesota Attorney General's Office
Co-Signing a Loan
(Separate Website)
By: Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Credit and Divorce
(Separate Website)
If you've recently been through a divorce, or are contemplating one, you may want to look
closely at issues involving credit.
By: Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Debt Collection
(Separate Website)
Important information about your rights in debt collection.
By: Minnesota Attorney General's Office
Fair Debt Collection
(Separate Website)
By: Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
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Out of Work? How to Deal with Creditors
(Separate Website)
By: Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
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Protecting Exempt Income from Garnishment
(Separate Website)
By: Minnesota Attorney General's Office
Where do I find information about my consumer/tax problem?
Click on the statement that is closest to your problem and get directed to a fact sheet with information on this topic.
By: Minnesota Legal Services Coalition State Support Center
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