Lawyer
The Only Student Loans I Don’t Regret
- March 18, 2017
- Posted by: Travis
- Category: Lawyer
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(Today’s guest post comes from Liz Stapleton. She’s a recovering attorney and freelance writer and has an awesome site called Less Debt More Wine. In 2014, Liz paid off all of her credit card debt (over $10k), raised her credit score from 640 to 800+, and paid off one of her many student loans. She’s been featured
Georgetown Law School PSLF Abuse Shows Why Program Will End
- December 19, 2016
- Posted by: Travis
- Category: Lawyer, PSLF
With political regime change coming to Washington, I wanted to highlight how one of America’s elite law schools uses federal student loan programs for its own benefit. Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) was intended by Congress to help low income borrowers work for non profits after college. The way the law ended up being written, PSLF became
The Verdict is in: Law School Student Debt is Criminally High
- December 9, 2016
- Posted by: Travis
- Category: Lawyer
Any soon to be or newly minted JD can tell you that law school student debt is criminally high. However, the range of the offense is large and varies from 3rd degree misdemeanor to 1st degree murder. On one hand, there are law schools like University of Alabama, where new graduates have a little over $69,000 in
This Dentist-Lawyer Couple Has a Half Million Dollars in Student Loan Savings Waiting on Them
- October 4, 2016
- Posted by: Travis
- Category: Dentist, Lawyer
Amber and Danny Masters are like any other married couple, except they have $591,158.21 in student loans. Their interest rates are sky high at an average annual rate of 6.8%. Unlike many couples in America, they are very serious about paying off this debt. They’ve rearranged their budget to prioritize making extra payments. Additionally, they even started a personal finance website,
