Debt by Situation
Some debts do not behave like a credit card, and the rule that governs them is not the one that governs a revolving balance.
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This section is built one situation at a time, and today it holds a single guide: paying down debt on an income that leaves almost no margin.
What is not here yet is worth naming, because the gap is the honest part of this page. Medical billing, tax debt owed to the IRS, payday lending, a car loan you are behind on and debt divided in a divorce each run on their own statute and their own timetable, and none of them is served by pointing you at an article about credit cards. Rather than publish a thin page per subject to fill the section, nothing goes up until the primary source has been read and the figures can be reproduced.
Two of those subjects are already answered elsewhere on the site and do not need a page here: what a bankruptcy does and does not do to tax debt owed to the IRS, and what a lender may take when you stop paying, which is set out in what happens if you stop paying. If the situation you came for is not here, the contact page is the fastest way to say so.
