by Ryan McKeen
It has been a busy week for me. Not a lot of time or energy to post. So I’m going to borrow from a conversation that I had earlier in the week:
“If you owe a bank a thousand dollars…they own you. If you owe a bank millions of dollars…you own them.”
For whatever reason, [...]
The best bargain for Connecticut residents in terms of resolving minor disputes are small claims courts.
Right now, for $35 and often not marshal fees a person can get their day in court before a magistrate.
The CT Law Tribune is reporting that the legislature is looking to raise the court entry fee to $60.
Even at $60 [...]
Connecticut has a prejudgment remedy problem.
The statutes do not make it clear as to whether or not a plaintiff can commence an action at the same time that it commences a prejudgment remedy.
I know from experience that some Connecticut court clerks allow this to happen while at least one won’t. I found this out the [...]
Yesterday, the Hartford Courant ran this article about Governor Rell’s proposal for property tax amnesty.
According to the article, Governor Rell is proposing lifting the mandatory 18 percent penalty charged to property owners who are late on payment of their taxes. The theory being that this would provide municipalities much needed cash.
My question is what happens to lien [...]
In a recent blog post about debt collectors preying on senior citizens, one method of collecting debts was revealed. This method involves finding someone with a similar name and going after them for the amount owed. Oftentimes, the person being contacted is not the person who owes money to the collection agency; however, sometimes people [...]
Thugs. That’s the only word that I’m willing to write in this blawg to describe them.
The them is/are large national debt collectors. These thugs by debt for pennies on the dollar and then try and collect anything they can from anyone.
Two years ago, an elderly woman came to me telling me that her identity had [...]
Obtaining judgment by default is becoming more and more frustrating.
When time is of the essence, either in an eviction or collection matter the last thing a litigant needs to happen is to have a clerk send back paperwork because some clerk doesn’t like your military affidavit.
The affidavit requires a party to show facts sufficient to [...]
Why I don’t get clients from my blog. This blog is for you, the Slovakian guy, logging into this site at 3 a.m. eastern standard time, and reading about John Trautwein.
With the prices of goods and fuel rising and money harder to come by, it should come as no surprise that the Legislature is looking to make some changes to Connecticut’s child support laws.
The Courant ran this article last week about a bill that would lengthen the amount of time that an obligor was required to pay child [...]
Last night, I watched part of the debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
As the candidates spent the first 17 minutes of the debate discussing healthcare insurance, it occurred to me that the last time I was in Small Claims Court that most of the cases on the docket involved defendants who were being sued for unpaid [...]
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