Hyland quoted in New York Times about consumer law case
I help many clients like this every day, but this case was mentioned recently in the New York Times. "In December 2012, Rahat Khan of Rockville, Md., tried to make a dent in the loans she had taken out to finance her daughter’s education, going online to pay $38,000 she had borrowed against her house. Relieved, Ms. Khan, 62, thought she was done. But in 2015, she started to get collection calls on the student loan that she thought had been paid. “What loan, I remember asking,
Lost paperwork has helped many of my clients reduce their student loan debt
This article in the New York Times is very good at summarizing a situation many of my clients have experienced. Ms. Watson made some payments on her loans but fell behind when her daughter got sick and she had to quit her job as an executive assistant. She now works as a nurse’s aide, with more flexible hours but a smaller paycheck that barely covers her family’s expenses. When National Collegiate sued her, the paperwork it submitted was a mess, according to her lawyer, Kevin
