The Court of Appeals enacted a piece of consumer debt collection reform earlier this month when it made it harder to have someone arrested for failing to show up at a hearing. After a judgment is ...

Although body attachments are identified with the Dickensian concept of debtors’ prisons, the process to obtain them is still legal. In Maryland, creditors can use the body attachment process to ...

URBANA – Carle Foundation Hospital will stop "body attachment" arrests of its debtors, effective immediately. The practice, in which collection agencies use court-ordered arrests to wring money from ...