Sorry to hear about your troubles. They go after husband, I assume to be ex-husband shortly, if he is a co-signor on the account. If the account is strictly in your name, he's not obligated to repay. When a debt is not paid, basically two things could happen and the timeframe we're talking about is typically between 2 and 4 years: 1) the creditor writes off the debt, debt is sold maybe resold several times, no one ever brings a lawsuit to court, statute of limitation for filing a lawsuit expires - In this scenario after the SOL expires basically the debt is uncollectible 2) same as above except the creditor or a third party who purchased the debt sues in state court, gets a judgment in an attempt to collect from assets (bank accounts, wages, real estate holding) - if they are inclined to spend the extra money they can go after debtor's assets in another country Will they go after you in Poland? Can't say for sure, but it's not likely unless we're talking about a significant sum of money and by that I mean more than a couple of thousand dollars, and the creditor has reason to believe that there are sufficient assets abroad to go through the extra trouble and expense to domesticate the judgment abroad. As far as your credit scores, I assume you don't care too much about this if you're not coming back. After 7.5 years this should fall off the credit report unless the debt is reduced to a judgment in which case that will stay on credit report until it expires assuming it is not renewed.
Answered on Apr 01st, 2015 at 4:26 AM