Issues related to the care of children following a family breakdown were the most common subject for assistance by Legal Aid NSW lawyers in Orange in the last financial year. Of the 1242 free legal services given to people in Orange by the organisation, 196 were for the family matters. It was followed by debts,…
Austin Community College wants Lyric Wardlow back in school. Members of the ACC Cabinet, campus operations and public affairs departments pooled donations and paid off $332 in Pell grant debt that Wardlow owed when she needed to drop out of classes after a family member died. Now the once-homeless teen can restart school with a…
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Long Blockchain Corp. LTEA, +10.32% formerly known as Long Island Ice Tea Corp., said it entered into a $2 million convertible debt facility, with an additional $2 million option, to help fund…
The year 2017 saw the big banks introduce a slew of measures, from scrapped ATM fees to new ethical codes, all intended to boost their battered reputation and fend off a royal commission. In the end these measures were not enough, and in late November Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull folded to political pressure and called a royal commission.…
Poor Christmas sales for Australia’s retailers could actually help Oroton’s new owners, led by fund manager Will Vicars, as they prepare for a fight with some of Australia’s biggest landlords. Mr Vicars, the chief investment officer at Caledonia, signed a deal with Oroton’s administrators on December 23 to rescue the business, which collapsed in November.…
John McDonnell has said the UK is in the grip of a personal debt crisis with levels of unsecured borrowing predicted to hit a record of £19,000 per household by the end of this parliament. The shadow chancellor said the increase in debt, to more than £14,000 per household this year, was alarming. Analysis from…
SALT LAKE CITY A group of law students at Brigham Young University is working to help Utah residents with their debt collection lawsuits. There are about 70,000 debt cases a year in Utah, many of which are for $100 to $200, KUER-FM radio reported. But people often end up spending more than that because they…
Brits who put presents on plastic this Christmas will carry an average card debt of £452 into 2018, new research from comparison site uSwitch.com shows. With almost £8.5 billion spent on plastic in total over the holidays, almost one person in five (17%) has gone over budget and almost one in four (22%) ended up…
Published 1:40 pm, Tuesday, December 26, 2017 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A class of law students at Brigham Young University is working to help Utah residents with their debt collection lawsuits. KUER-FM radio reports Salt Lake City lawyer Kimball Parker is leading the group of nine students in a semester-long project to work on a technology…