Can you avoid paying your debts by leaving the United States and will your debt or credit report follow you to another country? If you leave, will you be arrested when you return to the United States? Can you be arrested in the country you’re moving to for the debt you leave behind in the [...]

Time in prison is just one of many possible consequences of failing to pay your child support.  Recently I came across this on the U.S. Department of State website which states that if you are behind on “child support payments in excess of $2,500, you are ineligible to receive a U.S. passport. If this applies [...]

Many people have emailed me asking if they could go to prison for not paying their credit card debt. It seems that some collection agencies are trying to intimidate debtors with the threat of arrest and imprisonment. A collection agency representative might comment “if you don’t start making payments on this we can take you [...]