What’s the Best Way to Try to Settle a Warrant in Debt? Do you want to avoid garnishment (and avoid bankruptcy) by negotiating your warrant in debt? I get asked about that a lot. So here’s my best advice. Go to court and Ask for a Trial It doesn’t...
Around 100,000 people a year get arrested because they owe unpaid bills and ignore a court paper. Does this happen in Virginia. Yes! I’m a Virginia bankruptcy lawyer. About one-third of my clients don’t come to see me until the sheriff brings court...
How Leslie Beat a Warrant In Debt Leslie, not her real name, came to see me two months ago about filing for bankruptcy. It was clear, after we looked at her forms and talked it over, bankruptcy would work for her. It would take a couple months, though, to gather up...
Bill, not his real name, is filing bankruptcy with me in October. (He needs a couple more months to finish everything to get his bankruptcy approved.) In the meantime, he received a warrant in debt. Midland Credit Management, a big debt buyer, was suing him on a old...
