Debt Collection
- Answering Your Questions About Debt Collection (Coalition of WI Aging Groups)
- Can You Collect Your Judgment (Nolo.com)
- Business Debt Collection (Nolo.com)
- Collection of Decedents’ Debts in Wisconsin (Badgerlaw.net)
- Complaints
- Debt Collection (WI Dept. of Financial Institutions)
FAQ on your rights and responsibilitities. Includes contact information. - Fair Debt Collection (Federal Trade Commission)
Explains your rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
- Debt Collection (WI Dept. of Financial Institutions)
- Checks Marked as Payment in Full (WI Dept. of Financial Institutions)
Discusses legal standing of a "paid in full" statement. - Debt Collection Practices: Consumers' Rights in Wisconsin (Badgerlaw.net)
- Debt Collection Practices: When Hardball Tactics Go Too Far (Privacy Rights Clearinghouse)
- Exemptions in Collections Actions in Wisconsin (Badgerlaw.net)
The Law (Additional statutes, regulations & opinions may apply to your specific situation.)
- WI Statutes: s. 218.04 "Collection Agencies"
- WI Statutes: ch. 425 "Consumer Transactions: Remedies and Penalties"
- WI Statutes: ch. 427 "Consumer Transactions – Debt Collection"
- WI Statutes: s. 428.2095 "Property Exempt from Debt Collection"
- WI Statutes: ch. 811 "Attachment"
- WI Statutes: s. 893.43 "Action on Contract"
- WI Admin. Code: DFI-Bkg 74 "Collection Agencies"
- U.S. Code: 15 USC s.1692-1692o "Debt Collection Practices"
Search for more statutes, regulations & opinions.
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