How to improve credit score rating from bad credit to good.

Joint Marriage & Divorce Credit Protection

*Monitor credit reports for credit inquiries, late payments, and fraud.

*If your name changed, notify your creditors and credit reporting agencies to update them about your new name.

*Close all joint credit accounts if possible, balances must be paid off to do this. Re-apply for credit cards in just your name.

*Joint accounts have to be maintained if they are not paid off and closed. All account holders are liable for the debt regardless of a divorce decree.

*Monitor accounts in case a soon-to-be-ex-spouse wants to abuse accounts by not paying bills or maxing out credit cards. Try asking a credit card company to freeze the account.

*Talk to a lawyer about how divorce affects credit, try to work out debt payments with an ex-spouse.

*The best way to handle personal finances is to end joint accounts.

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Credit Risk and Why Bad Credit Costs You: It's pretty much common knowledge that having a bad credit score is expensive. With a poor credit score you can expect to pay higher interest rates on mortgages, credit cards and other loans that over time can really add up. On a 30 year mortgage on an average sized home, a high interest rate can end up costing you over $100,000 by the time you are finished off paying the loan.

But this does not really explain why bad credit costs you money, only how it does it. A higher interest rate is not simply a penalty lenders assign to people with bad credit. And while stating that the higher interest rate protects lenders in case you default on a loan is true, that is still only part of the story. After all, if you end up declaring bankruptcy, it doesn't matter how much the lender charges in interest since you won't be making payments anyway.

With regard to loans, the real reason bad credit costs you money is because you end up paying other people's loans off too.

Credit Repair Guarantees and Warranties: Credit repair is never a sure thing. Even if you exercise every legal right available to you ranging from submitting credit bureau disputes to suing your creditors, there is no guarantee that you disputes will produce results or that you will prevail in court. Sometimes it doesn't matter what you do, a negative item will remain on your credit report for 7 to 10 years.

It is because of this fact, and the apparent biases against credit repair companies, that the FTC frowns on overly aggressive messaging from credit repair companies and is so quick to point out that you can remove "accurate" negative information from your credit reports (accurate is in quotes because case law has essentially defined accurate as meaning negative item you cannot get the credit bureaus to delete). Companies that too strongly imply that their credit repair services will definitely be able to delete negative information from your credit reports risk FTC sanctions for misleading advertising.

Credit repair companies know that you want to be reassured that you are going to get your money's worth when you sign up with them. So while they will usually state that there is no guarantee that their service will produce the credit score you desire, many credit repair companies will also offer warranties where you can get your money back or have free service if you do not see results.

Warning Signs of a Credit Repair Scam:
1) Offer to Create a New Credit Report
2) Require Large Upfront Payments
3) Don't Have a Contract
4) Only Accept Cash, Checks, or Money Orders
5) Use a Third Party Payment System

Credit Repair Tactics
Credit Account Management - A big portion of your credit score has to do with the current condition of your credit accounts. What types of accounts you have open, how long they have been open, your credit limits, and the amount you currently owe all factor into your credit score. Through better management of these accounts, many people are able to positively affect their credit score in a matter of a few months.

Seasoned Tradelines - Along with manging your existing credit accounts, you may be able to improve your credit score by adding new lines of credit; specifically by adding established credit accounts in good standing. This is something frequently done by parents to help establish their children's credit by allowing children to become authorized users on the parents credit cards.

Taking this a step farther, many credit repair companies began offering seasoned tradelines to their customers in exchange for a fee. These companies would find people with good credit and offer to pay them to add the customer to their account as an authorized user which would have a positive impact on their credit score. Recently, because this tactic is seen by some as a way to game the credit system and artificially increase credit scores, steps have been taken to limit the effectiveness of purchased tradelines.

Credit Bureau Disputes - The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) gives you the right to dispute with the credit bureaus any items on your credit reports that are inaccurate or untimely. Additional case law expands the idea of inaccurate to include items that you feel are misleading, biased, unverifiable, etc. Essentially, you have the right to dispute any items on your credit report that you feel give people an unfair impression of you - which is a very common occurrence when dealing with credit reports. As the name of the law implies, the FCRA is about fairness and credit bureau dispute are one way consumers like you can make sure their credit score is fair.

When disputing an item with the credit bureaus, you are requesting that they perform an investigation to prove that the negative item is being accurately reported. With some exceptions, the credit bureaus are required to contact the creditor who reported the item to verify that it is correct. If the creditor is unable or unwilling to do so, then the credit bureau must either correct or delete the negative item from your credit reports.

Creditor Negotiations and Disputes - Instead of using the credit bureau to act as an intermediary between you and your creditors, you also have the option to work with your creditors directly. Working directly with creditors has a few advantages including the potential for faster response times, and the possibility of removing negative items from your credit reports that are 100% accurate.

You have a number of options when it comes to working with your creditors to repair your credit. At the most basic level, you can simply ask creditors to stop reporting negative items or arrange a solution where they will report your account more favorably in exchange for a payment. Beyond that, you can take advantage of the various consumer protection laws concerning how creditors and debt collectors can report to the credit bureaus. Similar to credit bureau disputes, you can use these statutes to force creditors to prove the accuracy of their reporting.

Creating a New Credit Identity - While it is a credit repair tactic that has been in use for years, creating a new credit file (known as "file segregation") is not something that anyone should consider. Not only is the effectiveness of these file segregation schemes suspect (new credit files do not mean good credit scores), but they are illegal.

Frequently these schemes are targeted towards people with serious negative items on their credit reports such as bankruptcies. These people, made desperate by the thought of having bad credit for a decade or more, get suckered into schemes where a company will claim to be able to give them a fresh start. This is done by having the customer apply for an Employer Identification Number or some other identifier that they can use in place of their Social Security Number. A new credit report then gets created using this new number. When applying for a loan, the new number is used instead of the person's actual Social Security number on the application so the lender ends up requesting the new credit report.

Not only are the companies who offer file segregation services operating on the wrong side of the law, by by participating in these schemes, you are too. It is illegal to misrepresent your Social Security number on a credit application.

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Can I sue a credit reporting company - Each year, thousands of consumers are turned down for credit cards, mortgages, student loans, other important loans and employment and housing opportunities, due to inaccurate information in their credit reports. You DO have the right to view your credit report, know what information is contained therein, and you can dispute that information if it is wrong or outdated and have it removed from your report.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act is a federal statute, enacted in 1970 to protect the rights of consumers, and regulate the practices of those who provide information to the credit reporting agencies, the agencies themselves and credit report users. The FCRA states that a consumer can make a legal claim against, and sue the credit reporting agencies, creditors and debt collectors who report information that is wrong. If your credit report is wrong through no fault of your own, we can help. We offer a FREE* case review and can assist you in either ensuring the report is corrected in a timely manner or by pursuing a claim against those who fail to comply with the FCRA.

You can order a report from the 3 credit reporting agencies, Equifax, Experian or Transunion by clicking on the order my credit report button on this website. These 3 agencies supply most of the information about you, your present and past payment history and outstanding debts to the banks, credit card companies, mortgage and other lenders that you have applied to for credit. Once you receive your report, if you have any trouble reading or understanding the information, give our office a call, or return to this site. Click, on the My report has errors button. If you think any of the information is incorrect or inaccurate, a form is supplied by the credit reporting agency with the report you ordered, which has your account number on it, for easier processing. You can use the basic dispute letter to modify and send back if you don't have the form that came with your report.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act offers specific consumer protections if you have been victimized by the crime of identity theft. Our credit report lawyers will do whatever can be done to ensure your credit and good name are not destroyed by the credit reporting agencies and your creditors, should this happen to you. If you are being harassed by debt collectors unfairly, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act dictates what collectors can and can not do in their efforts to collect debt. You can submit your information, or call our offices after reviewing the information on this site, to find out if a collector is in violation.

The law firm of Francis & Mailman, PC will handle claims involving credit report errors, fair debt collection practices, identity theft and other consumer fraud issues. We want to make certain the information in your credit report is reported correctly. If there are inaccuracies, the information should be removed in a timely manner, in accordance with the FCRA. The credit law professionals of our firms are on your side if your rights have been violated, and we will fight to recover what you are entitled to.