Ken Gilbert's Profile

Biography

Ken Gibert is a former attorney who practiced law from 1990 through 2006 before retiring to found YourLegalLegUp.com. The last several years of his practice focused on debt collection and debtor rights. Author of Special Issues in Debt Litigation and the Your Legal Leg Up Litigation Manual and Forms, Mr. Gibert has been a champion of people being sued for debt for many years. For more information, go to Fightback: http://yourlegallegup.com/pages/fightback or Sued for Debt, Why Your Chances are so good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT60kiHn8G8.

Ken Gilbert's articles

  • Three Communications the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Makes Illegal
    The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) is a source of many protections against "unfair" debt collection practices. It enumerates many of these practices but leaves room for more general use of the law, too. This article discusses three specific violations as examples of what the law can do.
    Posted: 2011-10-19
    Category: Legal
  • Assessing "Risk" and "Value" of Your Case When Sued for Debt
    If you're being sued by a debt collector, what they consider the risks in pursuing you and what your case is worth to the debt collectors are crucial facts. Knowing these facts will start to make you see how smart it is to defend yourself.
    Posted: 2011-10-19
    Category: Legal
  • The Business Records Exception to the Rule against Hearsay
    The main legal battle in debt collection is usually fought over whether the debt collector has the records it needs to prove its right to collect from you. It usually does not. It will try to sneak the evidence in using something called "the business records exception" to the rule against hearsay. If you're ready, you should be able to win this fight.
    Posted: 2011-10-19
    Category: Legal
  • Cease-Communication Letters - Forcing Debt Collectors to Stop Calling
    Debt collectors often try to wear down the resistance of consumers by repeatedly calling and harassing them, or calling them at inappropriate times and places. If this is happening, you can easily make it stop. Here's how.
    Posted: 2011-07-25
    Category: Finance
  • Debt Collection Laws--from the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to State Law Remedies
    Threatened with a debt collection lawsuit? Harassed or sued over a debt by either a debt collector or an original creditor? There are laws in place that could help you. This article will briefly discuss a few of them and tell you how to help yourself.
    Posted: 2011-07-25
    Category: Debt Consolidation