Comments on: Debt prevention vs. damage control http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2006/01/27/debt-prevention-vs-damage-control/ Personal finance, commentary, and spending less the easy way Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:24:44 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Rebecca http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2006/01/27/debt-prevention-vs-damage-control/comment-page-1/#comment-633 Rebecca Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:28:40 +0000 http://mightybargainhunter.com/?p=293#comment-633 Not paying student loans? Here in Texas, I practice law periodically (when I'm not writing) and I was told recently by a court clerk that I couldn't contact opposing counsel because she had been suspended indefinitely - for not paying her student loans. I was referred to the State Bar site, and there she was: along with an unbelievable number of people. Law school is expensive, I was blessed to get into UT with its low state tuition. How these folk are supposed to get themselves out of this financial ditch when they are suspended, I dunno. Catch-22. The economy is bad here, lawyers aren't being paid - or they don't have clients to worry about whether they're gonna get paid. I'm not condoning, I just don't want to be judgmental, either. People are hurting, and this woman I am sure is doing the best she can. I assume she had other bills she felt took priority. Recommending to ignore student loans? Skeery. Very skeery. Not paying student loans? Here in Texas, I practice law periodically (when I’m not writing) and I was told recently by a court clerk that I couldn’t contact opposing counsel because she had been suspended indefinitely – for not paying her student loans.

I was referred to the State Bar site, and there she was: along with an unbelievable number of people. Law school is expensive, I was blessed to get into UT with its low state tuition. How these folk are supposed to get themselves out of this financial ditch when they are suspended, I dunno. Catch-22.

The economy is bad here, lawyers aren’t being paid – or they don’t have clients to worry about whether they’re gonna get paid. I’m not condoning, I just don’t want to be judgmental, either. People are hurting, and this woman I am sure is doing the best she can. I assume she had other bills she felt took priority.

Recommending to ignore student loans? Skeery. Very skeery.

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