Guide to Surviving Debt 2013

This new fully updated edition of Surviving Debt provides precise, practical, and hard-hitting advice from the nation's consumer law experts on how to deal with crushing debt affecting millions of Americans.

Surviving Debt tells you what consumers need to know about:

• Dealing with Debt Collectors

• Which Debts to Pay First

• Saving Your Home from Foreclosure

• Credit Card Debt

• Student Loans

• Your Credit Report

• When and When Not to Refinance

• Strategies to Prevent Repossessions

• How to Defend Collection Lawsuits

• How to Find Effective Credit Counseling Agencies

• Your Bankruptcy Rights, and much more.

With glossary explaining an array of financial and legal terms and full index.

Reviews

"A wealth of expert legal advice on dealing with an overwhelming debt burden."

-- Senator Elizabeth Warren, Founder, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

"Outstanding manual. Seldom is such useful, authoritative information
available for so small a price!"

-- Booklist

"A gold mine on topics like how to handle collectors, which debts to pay first, and how collection lawsuits work."

-- U.S. News and World Report

"Great advice, from the nation's experts, on how to pull yourself out of debt."

-- Jane Bryant Quinn

"The best book available for consumers in financial trouble."

-- Stephen Brobeck, Executive Director, Consumer Federation of America