http://mcleodlawoffices.com/2006/10/and-in-other-sunday-papers/ McLeod Law Offices, Boston, Massachusetts. Consumer Bankruptcy, Business Bankruptcy, Litigation: Bankruptcy, Consumer & Debt. Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:01:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://mcleodlawoffices.com/2006/10/and-in-other-sunday-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Jonathan Ginsberg Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:12:44 +0000 http://mcleodlawoffices.com/?p=150#comment-107 Here's my debt collection story - a debt collector called the adult daughter of one of my clients to express condolences over the death of the adult daughter's mother. Of course, my client was not dead - it was a ruse to get her to call the collector. Charming, isnt' it? Here in Atlanta, my filings are down for two reasons - the process is much more complicated and requires a lot more documentation, and because the process is more complicated it is also more expensive. If the purpose of the new law is to drive down the filing numbers by making the cost (both in terms of time and money) prohibitive, it has succeeded. Here’s my debt collection story – a debt collector called the adult daughter of one of my clients to express condolences over the death of the adult daughter’s mother. Of course, my client was not dead – it was a ruse to get her to call the collector. Charming, isnt’ it?
Here in Atlanta, my filings are down for two reasons – the process is much more complicated and requires a lot more documentation, and because the process is more complicated it is also more expensive. If the purpose of the new law is to drive down the filing numbers by making the cost (both in terms of time and money) prohibitive, it has succeeded.

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