Category: Consumer Issues

Rising student loans forcing potential entrepreneurs to abandon their dreams. The answer is "yes" The rising mountain of student loan debt, recently closing in on $1.2 trillion, is forcing some entrepreneurs to abandon startup dreams [...]

Loan Modification program According to article in CNNMoney - starting July, 2013, hundreds of thousands of struggling borrowers could be in for a pleasant surprise: a quick and easy way to get their mortgage payments [...]

Judge says Wells Fargo prepared documents with "fraudulent purpose" of inducing borrower to make the payments and with option to later "stiff" borrower. “Heads I win, tails you lose” is a fraudulent coin toss. Wells [...]

Amy Rees Anderson, Contributor to Forbes.com Nothing is More Expensive Than Hiring a Cheap Lawyer "The only regrets I have ever had when it came to legal bills and lawyers was either not spending enough [...]

Interview with Diane L. Drain: As a secretary I had a unique talent: filling in for staff with demanding bosses who were “extremely brilliant attorneys without good social skills with staff.” “Heads I win, tails [...]

Student loans subsidized by the government will most likely double to 6.8 percent on July 1, 2013. “Heads I win, tails you lose” is a fraudulent coin toss. Wells Fargo did no better.” According to [...]

In 2010 Arizona instituted strict limits on payday loans. Unfortunately, banks are now picking up the practice of making these immoral loans calling their payday loans “deposit advances”. But if it walks and quacks like [...]

Until 2013 most Arizona exemptions have not changed since 1982. Bankruptcy cases filed after September 2013 will be able to use the new exemptions. “Heads I win, tails you lose” is a fraudulent coin toss. [...]

Bankruptcy Attorney, Law Professor, Community Activist, Mentor and much more... Working with an experienced bankruptcy attorney is very important because bankruptcy is an extremely complicated legal procedure. Bankruptcy is like a Rubik's cube. Diane [...]