Southern Fairfield Office: 500 West Putnam Ave. Suite 400 Greenwich, CT 06830 • Tel: (203) 542-7210
Northern Fairfield Office: 5 Shelter Rock Road Suite 6 Danbury, CT 06830 • Tel: (203) 797-9600

Fax: (203) 930-3603 • Email: info@dominickrendina.com
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The offices of Dominick Rendina - Attorney At Law is a federally designated DEBT RELIEF AGENCY as defined in the 2005 amendments to the US Bankruptcy Code. This law firm provides legal advice regarding the filing of bankruptcy and represents individuals and businesses in filing for bankruptcy relief under the US Bankruptcy Code. Click here:
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Prohibited creditor and collection agency activities

Under the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), a collection agency acting on behalf of the creditor is prohibited from the following actions:

1. Third-party communications: A collection agency may not contact third parties such other than the debtor's attorney or credit bureau for any reason other than to locate the debtor. Collection agents who contact third parties must state the name and may only add that they are confirming or correcting information about the debtor. Collection agencies are not permitted to:

  • Give the agency's name unless directly and ask
  • State that they are calling about a debt
  • Contact us a third party repeatedly unless an earlier response was wrong or incomplete.
  • Correspond by Mail and use deceptive words or symbols to conceal their collection motive.
  • May not contact family members or neighbors to request that they pass on phone messages or inform anyone else they are attempting to collect a debt

2. Debtor Represented by an Attorney: If you are represented by an attorney in a bankruptcy or collection-related matter, a collection agency is prohibited from contacting the debtor directly unless the debtor gives the collection agency consent to do so.

3. Communications with the Debtor: Collection agencies and their agents are prohibited from contacting debtors before 8:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m., or at any other inconvenient time and/or place. Collection agents are prohibited from contacting the debtor at his place of employment.

4. Threats or Abuse: Collection agents are prohibited from threatening you engaging in the use of threats of violence against the debtor and are prohibited from the use of obscene profane language. Agents are purgative from posting a debtor's name on a form of blacklists are other similar public posting. Agents are prohibited from repeatedly calling or contacted Governor without properly identifying themselves as bill or debt collectors.

5. False Statements: Debt collectors are prohibited from making a falsely imply that they are an Attorney or Government Agent. They cannot make misrepresentations of fact such as false statements pertaining to the character, amount or legal status of the debt.

6. Inaccurate Credit Report Information: When debt collectors report your credit information they are prohibited from failing to report that the debt is in dispute as mandated under the law. Many debt collectors continue to attempt to collect a debt after it has been discharged in bankruptcy in violation of the law.

ALERT!

Many credit card companies have their own internal collection/accounts receivable departments and although they are not permitted to verbally abuse or threaten you they are permitted to call your place of employment and they can and will repeatedly call you at home. However, once you are represented by a lawyer or file bankruptcy they are prohibited by law from contacting you.
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Dominick Rendina – Attorney At Law, may be a federally defined Debt Relief Agency. You have contacted Dominick Rendina – Attorney At Law, by visiting this website, www.dominickrendina.com or by phoning (203) 542-7210 or (203)797-9600, regarding inquires regarding your rights and obligations under, among other things, the bankruptcy laws of the United States of America.

"Credit Counseling", "debt management" and other "credit card payment plans" do NOT give the debtor a right to seek a discharge of debt. ONLY by filing bankruptcy in the US Bankruptcy Court does an individual have a right to seek to discharge of debt. A discharge in bankruptcy makes credit card, medical and certain other types of unsecured debts, permanently unenforceable against debtor, so that you will never have to pay those discharged debts, and the creditors you owe those debts to cannot phone you, write you, dun you, sue you, garnish your wages, or take any other act ever again to try to collect the discharged debt from you.

The Offices of Dominick Rendina - Attorney At Law will only represent you if a written contract for bankruptcy legal services is entered into, and signed by you and by The Offices of Dominick Rendina - Attorney At Law, and you meet all of the requirements within that written contract. Section 527 of the US Bankruptcy Code requires a Debt Relief Agency to provide an assisted person with the following information:

1. A Notice per 11 USC §342(b), which is attached at the end hereof and contains:

(1) a brief description of

(A) Chapters 7, 11, 12, and 13 and the general purpose, benefits, and costs of proceeding under each of those chapters; and

(B) the types of services available from credit counseling agencies; and

(2) statements specifying that

(A) a person who knowingly and fraudulently conceals assets or makes a false oath or statement under penalty of perjury in connection with a case under this title shall be subject to fine, imprisonment, or both; and

(B) all information supplied by a debtor in connection with a case under this title is subject to examination by the Attorney General.

2. THE FOLLOWING DISCLOSURES ARE REQUIRED BY 11 USC § 527(a)(2):

(A) all information that the assisted person is required to provide with a petition and thereafter during a case under this title is required to be complete, accurate, and truthful;

(B) all assets and all liabilities are required to be completely and accurately disclosed in the documents filed to commence the case, and the replacement value of each asset as defined in § 506 must be stated in those documents where requested after reasonable inquiry to establish such value;

(C) current monthly income, the amounts specified in section 707(b)(2), and, in a case under Chapter 13 of this title, disposable income (determined in accordance with § 707(b)(2)) are required to be stated after reasonable inquiry; and (D) information that an assisted person provides during his or her case may be audited pursuant to this title, and failure to provide such information may result in dismissal of the case under this title or other sanction, including a criminal sanction.

If you have any questions about any of these disclosures, we will be happy to provide further explanation.

3. Additional disclosures are required by 11 USC §527(b), and are sent to you herewith as a separately captioned document titled "Disclosures Required by 11 USC Section 527(b)".  Please CLICK HERE for the Debt Relief Agency Disclosures Required by 11 USC §527(b).

 
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