It’s very easy to file an online or even phone dispute with a credit bureau. It’s fine to start a dispute in this manner. However, to ensure that all parties are required to investigate the dispute and update the consumer’s credit report, it is important to provide notice to the…
Reboot Your Life: Tampa Student Loan and Bankruptcy Attorney Blog
Case Study for Student Loan Presentation to Florida JEDTI Consumer Attorneys Today
Yes, it’s a holiday weekend and I’m not quite sure why a local consumer group JEDTI is doing their 2nd Annual Convention today, but it is about a 100 degrees out and I think I’d melt outdoors anyway so why not? JEDTI was originally made up of mostly foreclosure defense…
CBS Evening News “Life and Debt” Three Part Series on Student Loan Debt
CBS interviewed us and our class action co-counsel, Gus Centrone of Centrone & Shrader, P.A., as background for their recent three part Eye on America story focusing on the student debt crisis. Per Seth Frotman, formerly with the CFPB, there is zero plan to tackle this at the federal level…
College Scorecard Helps Students Decide on Colleges
Fox 13 interviewed us in connection with their terrific story yesterday on the College Scorecard: College Scorecard a Wealth of Information on Every College and University in the Country. Anyone with a high school student or someone bound for college, should look into this resource to help make the decision…
Breaking the Stigma of High Student Debt
Today, we appeared on ParentPumpRadio as a guest discussing Breaking the Stigma of High Student Debt. Different topics were discussed such as the old view vs the new view on picking colleges, paying for school, choosing loans etc. If you are a parent or student thinking about college, be sure…
The story of Chloe, our rescue office kitty…
How it began (B.C. Before Chloe became our office kitty -not really, but close enough): View video – the story of Chloe, best viewed with audio to hear the upbeat and impressive music with Barbara’s photo and editing skills — don’t worry, she makes a better lawyer… Thank you for…
The Patriot Act Exposes the Student Loan Bubble: Entertaining and Informative Piece
This week 60 Minutes aired a student loan story about a Home Depot founder who donated hundreds of millions and raised additional funds to make NYU’s medical school tuition free. While this was a great story, and a compassionate thing to do to ensure that the lower paid physician…
Help a Greyhound Out!
Calling all dog lovers! Since greyhound racing will cease to exist in the next two years, all the greyhounds will need to be re-homed. Our friend Hope just adopted this lovable greyhound named Harper and she is so sweet and loving! Contrary to popular belief, they don’t need to be…
Bankruptcy Payments Permitted to be Directed Toward Principal During Plan
Faced with a nearly impossible standard to discharge federal student loan debt in bankruptcy due to undue hardship, creative debtors’ attorneys and the bankruptcy courts are continuing to create pockets of relief wherever possible. Finding that “non-dischargeability does not immunize the student loan claim from modification,”a bankruptcy court confirmed the…
Great Decision for a Non-Profit Group (ABA) for PSLF – Denying the DOE’s Attempt to Limit Employer Eligibility
Many people are facing uncertainty about PSLF for all kinds of reasons. We’ve focused on those who were told they were in the PSLF program only to find out that their loan types didn’t qualify all along, and now they have to start all over. We also help borrowers who…