Practice Tools

This checklist (created before enactment of Regulation F) lists approximately 50 potential FDCPA violations, allowing the attorney to indicate which have been violated.

This is a short form to assist in setting out the chronology of debt collection contacts, where for each contact the form allows recording of the date and time of contact, the collector’s name and company, the names of people contacted, and whether contacted by phone or letter, and what was said.

This nine-page checklist sets out questions for the client in a debt collection harassment case: information about the client, debt and debt contacts, the client’s objectives, questions about debt collection letters and phone contacts, questions about emotional impact and other damages, questions about third-party contacts and other debt collection abuses, and questions about the underlying debt and other debts.

Last updated October 2013, this sheet displays 57 FCRA verdicts—citation with court and year; the consumer and opposing attorney; whether a jury or bench verdict or settlement or offer of judgment; the type of FCRA claims; the type of defendant and defendant name; type of damages, including economic, emotional distress, unspecified, punitive, and statutory; and the total award prior to remitter or appeal and the final award.

This is notice of an equitable mortgage whereby a deed is transferred but not conveying an absolute interest in the property.