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Title: Are you being squeezed for a debt?
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Fact sheet

Title: LawZone - dealing with debt
About: A step-by-step guide to the law on debt in New South Wales. It contains information about what to do when someone owes you money or when a person is claiming money from you.
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Title: Consumer information fact sheets - banking, problems with your loan, debt collection, the Local Court, bankruptcy
About: Also available in Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Samoan, Vietnamese and Bahasa Indonesia.
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Title: Struggling with a debt?
About: Available in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, Chinese, Spanish, Samoan, Vietnamese
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Title: Dealing with debt: your rights and responsibilities
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Title: Love and loans: avoiding relationship debt
About: Questions to ask before going co-borrower or guarantor.
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Title: Personal insolvency information for debtors
About: Covers debt agreements, insolvency, voluntary bankruptcy and arrangements with creditors.
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Title: Letter of demand - Arts Law Centre of Australia sample
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Books in public libraries

Title: Debt Chapter 17: The law handbook 11th edition
About: Demands for payment, including letter of demand, creditors options, debtor's options, going to court, Statement of Claim, process servers, time limits, defending a claim, Small Claims Division, enforcing a judgment debt, examination summons, paying by instalments, writ of execution and seizure of goods and bailiffs.
Where: Check your public library.
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A Tool Kit title

Title: Debtor's guide to Local Courts: New South Wales 3rd edition
About: Negotiating with creditors; dealing with debt harassment; overview of the Local Court; responding to a statement of claim; and the process of enforcement of a debt and ways to stop enforcement.
Author: Macarthur Legal Centre
Where: Check your public library.
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A Tool Kit title

Lawyers' Tools

Title: Redfern Legal Centre's lawyers practice manual
About: Information about lawyer/client relationship, criminal law, including bail and pleamaking, defending in committal proceedings, drink driving, drugs and shoplifting, street offences such as swearing, prostitution and trespass. Also covers family law, accidents and compensation including workers compensation, tenancy, dividing fences, retirement villages, consumer law, social security, disability law, credit and debt, wills and estates, administrative law, immigration law, employment, discrimination and human rights, veteran's affairs and intellectual property. Location number LIAC/N349.944/6A.
Author: Rees, Neil
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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