New Editions: Fair Debt Collection

The Library recently received new editions of several titles published by the National Consumer Law Center, including Fair Debt Collection, 8th.

The Definitive FDCPA Treatise

The latest thinking and authoritative analysis of the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the statute that dramatically alters how collection agencies and attorneys collect consumer debts.

For 30 years, the primary reference in the field:

• Preparation of a debt collection harassment case
• Persons and transactions covered and FDCPA requirements and remedies
• The debt collector's defenses and counterclaims.

(Description from the NCLC website.)

Treatise Spotlight: Debt Collection Practice in California, 2nd edition

Title:  Debt Collection Practice in California, 2nd edition
Publisher: CEB
Last update: December 2012

Description:  Debt Collection Practice in California:  Understand successful creditor remedies and effective debtor defenses—both essential tools in a difficult economy. For creditors, learn to obtain powerful judgments—and how to collect on them. For debtors, discover defense strategies and responses to a judgment.

• Bringing creditor actions, discovery, prejudgment remedies, obtaining a judgment
• Writ enforcement, finding debtor assets, wage garnishment
• Debtor defense before and after entry of judgment
• Complying with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Acts
• Enforcing family law judgments
• Indispensable court pleading forms and mandatory Judicial Council forms
• Bankruptcy issues for both creditors and debtors
• Handling a deceased debtor’s debts

(description from publisher’s website)