Flynrider
Phoeix,#2Consumer Comment
Tue, May 19, 2009
Nothing good happens when you ignore a summons and skip the court date. Had you engaged a lawyer and challenged the debt in court, you might have been able to make this go away (11 yr. old debts are hard to prove valid). As it stands, your no-show caused the judge to enter a default judgement in favor of the collector. Now you're stuck with it. About the only legal way to make it go away is bankruptcy.
Flynrider
Phoeix,#3Consumer Comment
Tue, May 19, 2009
Nothing good happens when you ignore a summons and skip the court date. Had you engaged a lawyer and challenged the debt in court, you might have been able to make this go away (11 yr. old debts are hard to prove valid). As it stands, your no-show caused the judge to enter a default judgement in favor of the collector. Now you're stuck with it. About the only legal way to make it go away is bankruptcy.
Flynrider
Phoeix,#4Consumer Comment
Tue, May 19, 2009
Nothing good happens when you ignore a summons and skip the court date. Had you engaged a lawyer and challenged the debt in court, you might have been able to make this go away (11 yr. old debts are hard to prove valid). As it stands, your no-show caused the judge to enter a default judgement in favor of the collector. Now you're stuck with it. About the only legal way to make it go away is bankruptcy.
Flynrider
Phoeix,#5Consumer Comment
Tue, May 19, 2009
Nothing good happens when you ignore a summons and skip the court date. Had you engaged a lawyer and challenged the debt in court, you might have been able to make this go away (11 yr. old debts are hard to prove valid). As it stands, your no-show caused the judge to enter a default judgement in favor of the collector. Now you're stuck with it. About the only legal way to make it go away is bankruptcy.
Ashley
Springfield,#6Consumer Suggestion
Tue, May 19, 2009
When you get a summons to go to court then you should GO TO COURT. You might have been able to work something out. Since you did not go to court its done. You have a judgment on you and the judge found the debit valid. At this point your only options are to pay it, or go chapter 13. If you had paid this bill back in 1998 it wouldn't be 26,000$ now.