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What are my rights?

Produced by Mariah Jennings-Rampsi, South Coastal Counties Legal Services, with funding from American College of Bankruptcy
Reviewed October 2019

Creditors and debt collectors have the right to try to collect money you owe them. But you also have rights. The law protects you from harassment by creditors, their lawyers and debt collectors. 

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