Colorado Law Compass

Bankruptcy Basics

Thinking About Lying on Your Bankruptcy Petition? Bad idea.

I’d never condemn someone for lying.  Perhaps there is someone out there who has never lied, never told an untruth.  But I haven’t met that person.  Let me be clear, however.  I don’t condone lying.  But I can understand why someone would.
And I will give a person who asks me if he should lie in [...]

How to Avoid Identity Theft

Colorado Man Goes to Prison for Lying on Loan Application

Seems like no big deal, doesn’t it?  What harm could there be in lying on a loan application?  While the story below does seem pretty severe, if a lender finds out that you lied on a loan application, there will be consequences.  You could lose your loan or be sued for the amount of the [...]

What to do if You Can’t Make Your Mortgage Payment

The Federal Trade Commission has some helpful tips if you feel like you’re on the verge of being unable to make the payments on your home:
Know Your Mortgage
Do you know what kind of mortgage you have? Do you know whether your payments are going to increase? If you can’t tell by reading the [...]

Door to Door Magazine Sales Scam on the Rise

I live in a neighborhood with lots of kids.  When one of them has a fundraiser, they know I’m an easy mark.  Every February I dread the onlsaught of Girl Scouts, well not so much the Girl Scouts, but the cookies they bear.
But when it comes to strangers soliciting me, I have a simple rule: [...]

New Colorado Car Seat Law for Kids Makes Its Way Through Senate – Big Government Opponents Apoplectic

A proposed law that would require all children under eight to be in booster seats when riding in a vehicle has made it over its first hurdle in the Colorado Senate.  The law would eliminate height and weight requirements and put in place an across the board requirement.
While the bill made it past this first [...]

What You Need to Know About Buying a Salvage Vehicle

Find yourself a nice car on craigslist?  Says it has a “salvage title”?  What’s that?  The Colorado Attorney General’s website has some info:
In Colorado, a “salvage vehicle” is any vehicle that is damaged by collision, fire, flood, accident, trespass, or other occurrence, excluding hail damage, to the extent that the cost of repairing the vehicle [...]

Three Lawyers Banned from Collecting Debts in Colorado

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced March 9th that attorneys from the Consumer Protection Section have reached a settlement with attorneys Jack H. Boyajian, Marvin Brandon and Karen Nations, their four law firms and one associated business barring them from violating Colorado’s debt-collection and consumer-protection laws.
The consent decree, approved Monday, March 8, by a Denver [...]

Top Consumer Complaints of 2009

In recognition of National Consumer Protection Week, the Colorado Attorney General released a list of the top consumer complaints of 2009, published here for your information:
Type of business/Number of Complaints

Rebate offers 631
Utility complaints (cable and satellite television) 254
Roofing and gutter contractors 193
Health food and nutritional supplements 145
Timeshare resales and vacant lot resales 129
Computer training [...]