Today, I had a hearing on a case where I’ve been trying to collect against the woman for a little over three years now. When we started, she was about twenty, brash, a little full of herself, and fairly good looking. The bloom of youth is deteriorating so rapidly, it’s amazing. Kids, sporadic unemployment, presumably stress from debt collectors such as myself, and I suspect substance abuse of some sort are taking their toll. My judgment is good for twenty years, and I don’t see this one getting paid off any time soon. It will be interesting to see if the years forge something strong or grind her to dust.
Doug:
My take on it would be to think about whatever “support” system she DOES or DOES NOT NOT have in place, and IF she is willing to to place herself into it.
Without THAT…not much will come from it in in a positive manner, unless she can suddenly become self-reliant with a real sense of what her “self” is all about.
Soul-searching 101 to be sure.
B.G.
There but for fortune, go you and I.
Fortune’s part of it, but there is a fair amount of poor planning and poor decision making mixed in too.