Curse of the Zombie Debt
A recent article in the St. Petersburg Times, “Buyers Give Old Debts New Life,” provides a revealing look at the problem of “zombie debt.” (See my blog post of 5/19/06 on this subject.) In the debt industry, zombie debt is debt that is past the Statute of Limitations for collection through the court system. This is also called “time-barred” debt, because it has aged past the point (Click to continue reading this post…)