Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Virginia

Release from credit card and unsecured loan debt

How does a separated party from a non-divorced couple

get released from credit card debts and unsecured

loan debts? How does this legally separated person

get their name removed from these previously joint

accounts?


Asked on 4/22/00, 4:39 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Daniel Press Chung & Press, P.C.

Re: Release from credit card and unsecured loan debt

You can close the accounts to stop new charges, but the only way to deal with the existing joint debt is to pay it, get the other party to pay it, or file bankruptcy. You cannot simply remove your liability for joint debt.

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Answered on 5/25/00, 11:27 am


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