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Bankruptcy Help For Everyday People
Nobody expects a long-term illness to drain them financially, yet too many people find themselves in such scenarios when medical bills start piling up. Add in income lost due to missed work days, and it isn't hard for someone with a chronic illness to end up facing...
A medical emergency can happen anywhere at any time. Let’s say you’re at your in-law's house for Thanksgiving. You try to help by removing the turkey from the oven and you severely burn yourself. Your mother-in-law calls for an ambulance and you find yourself at a...
Glance at the headlines on any given day in the United States, and you’ll probably see something about the growing medical debt burden carried by the average citizen. Back in 2020, it was estimated that Americans owed a combined total of roughly $81 billion in unpaid...
Being in debt can be stressful. Debt collection agencies can be relentless. Debt collectors can be aggressive in their methods, even breaking the law sometimes. Being in debt does not mean you sacrifice your legal rights. You’re not obliged to succumb to the unlawful...
When you receive a medical bill that is thousands of dollars, the shock of the price tag alone may make you set aside the bill for another time. Putting off paying will only end up having the bill go to collections. Once a bill goes to collections, the collectors will...
Whether you had an unexpected illness that caused a lengthy hospital stay or broke your leg in an accident, it won’t take very long before the medical bills roll in. If you don’t have insurance, you’re probably facing a massive bill. What if you have insurance? Well,...
Medical bills are often unexpected, and even with insurance, they can be thousands of dollars. You may have thought that your operation or emergency was covered, but when out-of-network providers participate in your care or an accident and injury happens out of state,...
If you are struggling to pay your medical bills, it may be possible to have them eliminated by filing for bankruptcy. In addition to obtaining debt relief in a timely manner, you will likely be entitled to an automatic stay of creditor collection activities by doing...
No one plans for a medical emergency, but they happen all the time in North Carolina. A sudden illness, a violent car accident, or an injury at work can leave a person in pain, unable to do their job, and struggling to keep up with their lives. Very quickly after a...
When people are considering bankruptcy, a feeling of shame may be involved. After all, financial failure is a failure, and American society does not tolerate this well. But many kinds of debt do not come from a lack of shrewdness in the stock market or a bad spending...
