Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Virginia
asset protection and collections
5 years ago I walked away from 55k of unsecured credit card debt. According to a book titled debt and bk, an option was to do nothing and the debts would fall off in 7 years - rather than having a bk on record for 10.
This fall a grandparent died leaving me farmland in ND and liquid assets.
Conveniently, I was laid off from the mortgage industry - so this may be a good time to take any sort of action.
What measures can I take for asset protection? And I just started a credit repair service, is this wise?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: asset protection and collections
Credit repair sevices are largely bogus(in my opinion). The way one repairs one's credit is the slow way, i.e, by paying one's bills on time, one month at a time, month after month, starting, perhaps, with a department store card or credit card funded with a required deposit against which charges may be made.
As for asset protection, assuming that a judgment could still be sought and obtained against you by one of your former unrequitted creditors, putting the property in some other person's name whom you trust implicitly (and, needless to say, who has no credit problems or outstanding judgments), is about the only surefire way to confer such protection on real property which is titled only in your name.