Once you receive your bankruptcy discharge, creditors are prohibited from ever trying to
collect the debt again.
Not exact matches
A discharge of the
debts means your liability for those
debts is gone and the creditor can not
collect on those
debts ever
again.
They can only contact you
again to tell you of any further action they will take to
collect your
debt.
Filing for bankruptcy also automatically protects you from collection actions on all of your
debts, at least until the bankruptcy case is resolved or until the creditor gets permission from the court to start
collecting again.
In addition, when someone files for bankruptcy, all collection actions are automatically temporarily stopped on all of his or her
debts, at least until the bankruptcy case is resolved or until the creditor gets special permission from the court to start
collecting again.