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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
Identity theft can happen after you file your taxes or even when you buy gas. Recovering from the theft and damage to your credit can be a nightmare. Fortunately, the government has created a helpful and simple step-by-step tool to assist you. Click here for more.
Television's Future, According to Google
Google is increasingly interested in building an alternative to the traditional cable set-top box. Milo Medin, vice president of access services at Google, predicts that the Internet giant's own platform for smart televisions, Android TV, will "eventually build something" that allows consumer to abandon the black, bulky boxes.
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Your Money
Not only does the gender pay gap impact women today, it also threatens retirement security. U.S. Census Bureau data shows that women who work full-time, year-round, made just 79 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts in 2014. A woman who works full-time over a 40-year period loses $435,480 in lifetime income. Kathleen Burns Kingsbury, an expert on wealth and psychology, suggests that women take proactive steps to blunt the impact of wage inequality on retirement, starting with negotiating for more pay. Click here for more.
For the Lawyers
The middle district of Florida court held that the Bankruptcy Code precludes an FDCPA claim for filing a time barred claim. Plaintiff alleged that Defendants violated the FDCPA by filing a time-barred proof of claim in Plaintiff's bankruptcy case. The Bankruptcy Code, which allows debt collectors to submit proofs of claim without regard to the statute of limitations on the debt, and the FDCPA, which prohibits filing suit on a time barred claim, conflicted with each other. As a result, one must preclude the other. In this case, the Bankruptcy Code provides debtors a remedy to object to proofs of claim, so the FDCPA should give way to the Bankruptcy Code. Castellanos v. Midland Funding LLC Click here for more.