Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in California
Can a debt collector call my co-workers at work to ask them to have me call them back? I am in California.
Asked on 8/03/11, 2:33 pm
1 Answer from Attorneys
Asaph Abrams
Law Office of Asaph Abrams
There are (fairly toothless) fair debt collection practices acts designed to deter creditors from calling and to limit what you describe; the express goal was to obviate the need for bankruptcy by curtailing undue influence and oppression... suffice to say it was a lofty goal. In any event (even toothsome) fair-debt laws won't preclude garnishments, attachments, and property-seizures.
Primary source: see �805 at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre27.pdf
Answered on 8/03/11, 2:40 pm