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Find the equivalents of the following words and expressions in the text
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Получать деньги; возвращать деньги; быть замешанным в грязные дела; вмешаться в личную жизнь; побуждать; агент по взысканию долгов; притеснение; оскорбительный телефонный звонок; контракт о сборе денег расторгнут; нарушение общественного порядка; превышать сумму долга; законная защита; юридическая консультация; заочное решение суда; истец; ответчик; наложение ареста на деньги должника, находящиеся у третьего лица; пособие по безработице; конфисковать имущество.
Answer the questions:
1. What ways of collecting money from consumers who are unwilling or unable to pay their debts do creditors have?
2. What act protects consumers from abusive and unfair collection practices by professional debt collectors? What was it prompted by?
3. Does this act apply to creditors collecting their own bills?
4. What is limited and prohibited under this act?
5. What is repossession?
6. Why should people avoid a default judgment when being sued?
7. What is the difference between garnishment and attachment?
8. Who cannot have their income garnished?
9. Why may state laws further limit and sometimes completely prohibit garnishment?
Match the words on the left with the correct definition
on the right:
| Invade | complainant. |
| Prompt | court order that forces the debtor’s employer to withhold part of the debtor’s wages and pay it directly to the creditor. |
| Plaintiff | urge. |
| Defendant | take possession. |
| Garnishment | violate. |
| Attachment | accused. |
| Seize | court order that forces a bank to pay the creditor out of a consumer’s bank account or that allows the court to seize the consumer’s property and sell it to satisfy the debt. |
Problem–solving:
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