Attorney Jim Turner

Allied Credit Consultants is an Orlando based Florida debt collector with an office located at: 4700 Millenia Blvd., Suite #175, Orlando, FL 32839. In a lawsuit filed in United States District Court in Orlando, the consumer alleged that during February of 2016, he received 3 telephone calls from Allied Credit Consultants and the originating telephone number was 888-855-7131. The first caller to…

Dyck O’Neal is a “debt collector”

As a defedant in dozens of lawsuits in Florida filed under the FDCPA, Dyck O’Neal regularly disputes that it is a “debt collector.”  Establishing that Dyck O’Neal is a “debt collector” is a requirement for the plaintiff to obtain a judgment under the FDCPA. Dyck O’Neal is a “Debt Collector” as defined by the FDCPA. “Debt collectors” are defined by the FDCPA as “any person who uses any…

Action for Deficiency Judgment by Dyck O’Neal Dismissed

A Circuit Judge in Orlando, Florida, dismissed an action for a deficiency judgment, with prejudice, filed by Dyck O’Neal.  The defendant resided in California and purchased property in Florida for personal use.  Falling on hard times, the defendant was unable to make the mortgage payments and a foreclosure judgement was entered against him and the property was sold at auction.  Thereafter, 6…

Student Loan Debt Wiped Out

Student Loan Debt Wiped Out

A Circuit Judge from Highlands County, Florida granted the consumers’ motion for summary judgment on the grounds that the plaintiff, National Collegiate Student Loan Trust, had failed to provide notice to the borrowers of the assignment of the student loans. Section 559.715 of the Florida Statutes requires that a 30 day notice be provided to consumers of the assignment…

Collection Calls from Unifund CCR Partners

Unifund CCR Partners was founded in 1986 and was one of the first companies to purchase defaulted consumer receivables. Unifund‘s founder and chief executive officer, David G. Rosenberg, founded Unifund to purchase and collect returned checks. In 1989, Unifundbegan buying distressed loan portfolios on a national scale from small banks and retailers. One year later, the company began purchasing…

Weltman, Weinberg & Reis

<p> Weltman Weinberg and Reis, LPA is a debt collection law firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, that files and litigates debt collection suits throughout the United States.</p>

<p>The firm was founded 1930 and has roughly 950 employees in nine offices throughout the United States. Weltman Weinberg & Reis, LPAspecializes in bankruptcy, real estate default, consumer and commercial collection agency…

Deficiency Judgments in Florida

In Florida, a mortgage foreclosure action will not automatically result in a deficiency judgment. In other words, just because you lose property in foreclosure does not mean you will remain personally liable for money owed to the lender. To obtain a deficiency judgment against the borrower after the foreclosure sale, the mortgage lender must file a motion for a deficiency and allege the…

The following is a list of attorneys in Orlando who represent consumers in FDCPA matters:

KEL Attorneys

111 North Magnolia Avenue

Suite 1600

Orlando, Florida 32801

Donald Petersen

Michael Tierney

  The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) mandates that as part of noticing a debt, a debt collector must send the consumera written notice containing — along with other information – “the name of the creditor to whom the debt is owed.” This…

The Eleventh Circuit and the majority of federal circuit courts have adopted the “least-sophisticated consumer” standard in analyzing claims brought under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA).   The least-sophisticated consumerstandard is…

An attempted validation notice pursuant to 15 U.S.C. §1692(g) attached to a Complaint in a lawsuit may be considered as deceptive and misleading to the “least sophisticated consumer” under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. In Battle v. Gladstone Law…

Fifteen consumers filed a Class Action Lawsuit against Weinstein, Pinson & Riley in United States District Court in Orlando alleging violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.  The Class Action Complaint arises out of a number of student loan…

Deborah E. Focht appealed the trial court’s entry of a final summary judgment of foreclosure in favor of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. The Florida Second District Court of Appeal reversed the final judgment of foreclosure because there was a genuine issue of…

Leon County, Florida, Circuit Judge, John C. Cooper, dismissed a lawsuit filed by National Collegiate Student Loan Trust for breach of contract in connection with an allegedly defaulted student loan.    Judge Cooper ruled that the complaint was defective…

Student Loan lawsuits are on the rise. Two major student loan debt buyers, National Collegiate Student Loan Trust and SLM Private Credit Student Loan Trust, are suing consumers across the country for past-due private student loans. Neither National…

A lawsuit filed under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act alleges that Midland Funding, LLC and Pollack & Rosen, P.A.garnished the wages of the wrong person. A wage garnishment is an order from a court…

Weinstein, Pinson & Riley, P.S. has filed hundreds of lawsuits against consumers in the Central Florida area on hehalf of National Collegiate Student Loan Trust.

National Collegiate Student Loan Trust is a Delaware Trust that is currently pursuing many…