Divorce and credit card debt Protect your good credit –Your divorce does not releive you from any joint credit card debt you may have had while you wer married. You are responsible for joint accounts from any credit card s you may have along with car loans and home mortgages. Even if a divorce judge [...]

Divorce and Credit–Are You Liable? Bill and Susie recently divorced. Their divorce decree stated that Bill would pay the balances on their three joint credit card accounts. Months later, after Bill neglected to pay off these accounts, all three creditors contacted Susie for payment. She referred them to the divorce decree, insisting that she was [...]

Disputing Credit Reports—What You Need to Know Managing credit often becomes complicated when details are lost, confused, unknown or when there are disputes on personal credit reports. Many times there will be errors with purchases or credit records. Other times, you may be dealing with fraud from information being stolen and used by someone else. [...]