It is often difficult to keep track of all your creditors. Making matters worse, often times debt collections agents and/or debt buyers make it confusing to understand who you owe.

If, for some reason, a creditor is not included in the initial bankruptcy filing and your bankruptcy case is still open, then worry not the creditor can still be added to your bankruptcy filing. The debt owed to the added creditor must have been incurred prior to filing of your initial documents.

A Motion to Amend your Bankruptcy filing will need to be filed with the Court. Currently the Court will charge a $26 Court filing fee to Amend Schedule D, E, or F.  Here at the Law Office of Robert W. Kovacs, Jr., we will, in most cases, file one Amendment to Schedule D, E, or F without charging additional legal fees.

Debt collectors are well known for using harassing, unethical, and immoral techniques to collect debt. There are both federal and state laws to protect an individual from these abuses.

In Massachusetts creditors, the original creditor, a debt collector agent or attorney for the creditor, are not permitted to call a debtor more than 2 times in a rolling 7 day period at home and no more than 2 times in a rolling 30 day period at a place other than at home.

If creditors are calling keep a detailed log of calls from the creditors. Record such information as: time and date of call, phone number the call came from, name of the creditor and debt collector agent. If you answered the call, who did you speak to, what did they say, how do you call them back?

If the creditor leaves a message on your voice mail, save it, and keep all telephone logs from the phone company.

If you have been sued you may have a counter claim against the creditor because of the harassing phone calls and you may also have a cause of action against them.

Robert