Collection actions
Subtitle: defending consumers and their assets
By: Jonathan Sheldon, Carolyn L. Carter, Chi Chi Wu ; contributing authors, Dwain Alexander, Jeremiah Battle, Jr., Leah Davenport, Robert J. Hobbs, Mary Kingsley, Darlene R. Wong
Contributors: Carter, Carolyn L.; Wu, Chi Chi; National Consumer Law Center
Edition: Third edition.
Series: Consumer credit and sales legal practice series
Publisher: National Consumer Law Center
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 585
ISBN-13: 9781602481466
Subjects: Collection laws; Collection agencies; Law and legislation; Consumer credit
Notes: Kept up to date by supplements and companion website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Case selection, advising the client, and litigation strategy; title: Dismissal before reaching the merits; title: Proof of the merits of the collector's claims; title: Defenses and counterclaims; title: State restrictions on the recovery of attorney fees and other collection expenses; title: Defending military personnel in collection actions; title: Criminal and civil collection of dishonored checks; title: Medical debt; title: Defending consumers against collection by federal administrative agencies; title: Challenging a collection judgment; title: Protecting debtors from creditors' postjudgment remedies; title: Prevailing consumers' postjudgment actions. Appendix A: Selected provisions of the servicemembers civil relief act; title: Appendix B: Selected provisions governing collection of debts owed to federal government; title: Appendix C: Federal wage garnishment statute and regulations; title: Appendix D: Treasury rule protecting electronically-deposited exempt federal benefits; title: Appendix E: Selected federal exemption provisions; title: Appendix F: Federal trade commission credit practices rule; title: Appendix G: Summaries of state exemption laws; title: Appendix H: Online companion material for this treatise.