Debtor Beware<\/strong><\/h3>\nSome debt settlement companies are so enmeshed in fraudulent practices that they even pose as law firms to get people to sign up. If you are a consumer in need of debt relief, make sure you are dealing with a real attorney, not an imposter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Debt settlement companies are not supposed to engage in deceptive practices. Detailed government rules are designed to stop them from doing things like charging up-front fees that often leave debtors worse off, not better, or pushing their services aggressively through telemarketing. But despite new rules from the Federal Trade Commission, many unscrupulous debt consolidation companies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}