QUESTION
received a letter for a court summons for debt collection
Asked on Aug 13th, 2015 on Breach of Contract - Florida
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there is a company that is taking me to court to collect a debt from at least 10 years ago. I had received a letter from their lawyer about a year ago and replied to it asking them to send me verification that it was my debt. I never heard anything back and then just got a letter for a court date. What should I know going into it?
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Consumer Debt Collector Harassment & Abuse Attorney serving Tampa, FL
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What you should know is that absent a lawyer you are playing into the junk debt/zombie debt business model of litigaiton. They rely extensively on people who default or worse think they can self lawyer themselvesin court and usually lose terribly, to get judgments against people. If you being sued, and if you don't intend to pay them for whatever reason, you really need to retain alawyer to help you address this from the beginning.
Answered on Aug 17th, 2015 at 8:39 AM
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