Money Troubles: Legal Strategies to Cope With Your Debts (Solve Your Money Troubles) [Paperback]

Robin Leonard (Author)

Book Description

Series: Solve Your Money Troubles | Publication Date: September 2003

Feeling overwhelmed by your debts? If you're ready to regain your financial freedom, this book is exactly what you need! Step by step, Attorney Robin Leonard shows you how to:

*prioritize debts
*create a budget
*negotiate with creditors
*stop collector harassment
*challenge wage attachments
*contend with repossessions
*respond to creditor lawsuits
*qualify for a mortgage
*rebuild credit

To make the process easier, Money Troubles also includes sample letters to creditors, as well as worksheets and charts to calculate your debts and expenses and help you create a repayment plan.

With the completely updated and revised 9th edition, learn how to deal with identity theft, choose a reverse mortgage, opt out of telemarketers' lists and defend your property from creditors who are collecting a debt.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Offers those deep in debt a plan for digging themselves out. -- Orlando Sentinel, 9/7/2000 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Attorney Robin Leonard has been featured as a money and credit advisor on Good Morning America and CNN, and in publications across the country, including Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Money, Forbes and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of many Nolo books including Money Troubles: Legal Strategies to Cope with Your Debts, Credit Repair, Take Control of Your Student Loan Debt, and Bankruptcy: Is It the Right Solution to Your Debt Problems? and co-author of How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy and A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Nolo (September 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873379756
• ISBN-13: 978-0873379755
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,200,283 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, practical, authoritative, reader friendly., April 6, 2000

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Money Troubles: Legal Strategies to Cope With Your Debts (Money Troubles, 6th ed) (Paperback)

Now in a fully updated and expanded sixth edition, Robin Leonard's Money Troubles: Legal Strategies To Cope With Your Debts continues to be an invaluable instruction manual and guide for consumers seeking to pare down their debts by negotiating with creditors and prioritizing financial obligations; rebuilding personal credit; stop collection harassment; respond effectively to creditor lawsuits; learn effective alternatives to bankruptcy; determine if and when bankruptcy is the correct response to debt; and much, much more. Accurate, reliable, practical, comprehensive, and truly reader friendly, Money Troubles is an outstanding, highly recommended compendium of advice, counsel and strategies for dealing with credit cards, bill collectors, credit reports, credit bureaus, judgments, wage garnishments, repossessions, foreclosure, property liens and levies, refund rights, bounced checks, consigned loans, budgeting, and credit counseling.

18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too Basic, August 23, 2000

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Joaquin Menchaca (San José, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Money Troubles: Legal Strategies to Cope With Your Debts (Money Troubles, 6th ed) (Paperback)

This book is very basic and gives advice about how to manage money. However the one mistake the book makes is that it assumes that collection agencies and/or creditors are legitimate and offers no recourse to how to dispute charges from less scrupulous companies and agencies. The text for dealing with credit reporting bureaus is very basic. There are more precise texts to tell how to clean up your credit report (naturally after you have closed the accounts).

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely the best!, October 14, 1999

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Gerri Detweiler "host, Talk Credit Radio" (Gulf Coast, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Money Troubles: Legal Strategies to Cope With Your Debts (Solve Your Money Troubles) (Paperback)

This book has to be the most comprehensive and most helpful book for people who are having credit and money problems. It's easy to read (like all the Nolo books I've read) and the information is detailed and excellent. The state-by-state charts of current laws are really useful. I can't recommend it highly enough -- and I've recommended it to a lot of people.