What to do if I had an agreement with a law firm to pay half of a debt to them in order to remove a judgment on my credit report but now they say that they cannot?
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What to do if I had an agreement with a law firm to pay half of a debt to them in order to remove a judgment on my credit report but now they say that they cannot?
Asked on May 13, 2014 under Bankruptcy Law, Maine
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 9 years ago | Contributor
If you had a written agreement with them for them to do this and they cannot or will not, they are in breach of the agreement; that may enable you to cease paying the debt and possibly sue them for compensation or damages. Consult with an attorney before doing anything. If it was an oral agreement, it is in principal enforceable the same way as a written one, but is much more difficult to prove. Note that they may not have ever been able to do what they promised: they can ask that information be removed from your credit report, but have no power to compel the credit reporting agencies to do that. Thus, their offer to do this may have been fraud.
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