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Consumer Issues

FDCPA, FCRA disputes, lemon laws, contractor complaints, and consumer protection procedures.

Texas Lemon Law Rules for a Refund or Replacement

September 26, 2026 by Rachel Monroe

The Texas lemon law lets an owner ask the state to order a refund or a replacement when a warranted defect survives repeated repair attempts. Here are the qualifying tests, the deadlines, and the limits on what an order can award.

Categories Consumer Issues, Lemon Laws

Georgia Lemon Law: How to Qualify for a Refund or Replacement

September 26, 2026 by Rachel Monroe

The Georgia Lemon Law gives owners of defective new vehicles a path to a refund or a replacement: a 24-month or 24,000-mile rights period, a set number of repair attempts, a written final repair notice, and free state-operated arbitration.

Categories Consumer Issues, Lemon Laws

Statute of Limitations on Debt in Florida: Time Limits by Debt Type

September 26, 2026 by Rachel Monroe

Florida’s limitation periods for consumer debt run 5 years on written contracts, 4 years on open accounts, 3 years on hospital medical debt, and 20 years on a Florida judgment. Where the clock starts and what restarts it.

Categories Consumer Issues, Debt Collection

California Lemon Law for a Used Car: What Qualifies

September 26, 2026 by Rachel Monroe

Whether the California lemon law reaches a used car turns on the warranty, not the odometer. How the Song-Beverly Act treats factory-warranty balances, certified pre-owned coverage, dealer warranties, and “as is” sales.

Categories Consumer Issues, Lemon Laws

Qualifying for an Ohio Lemon Law Refund or Replacement

September 25, 2026 by Rachel Monroe

How a new vehicle qualifies as a lemon in Ohio: the one-year/18,000-mile protection period, the four repair-attempt presumptions, what a full refund includes, and the arbitration and five-year filing rules.

Categories Consumer Issues, Lemon Laws

California Consumer Rights: Laws, Complaints, and Remedies

September 27, 2026September 25, 2026 by Rachel Monroe

California consumer protection runs through four main statutes plus a set of agencies that take complaints. This page maps which law covers which dispute, what each one lets a consumer recover, the deadlines that apply, and where complaints and lawsuits get filed.

Categories Consumer Issues, Filing Complaints

Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act: Rights and Remedies

September 26, 2026September 24, 2026 by Rachel Monroe

How Ohio’s Consumer Sales Practices Act works: what it prohibits, what a consumer can recover, the two-year filing deadline, and how Attorney General enforcement fits alongside private claims.

Categories Consumer Issues, Filing Complaints

Georgia Consumer Protection Laws and the Fair Business Practices Act

September 27, 2026September 24, 2026 by Rachel Monroe

How Georgia’s Fair Business Practices Act and related statutes protect consumers, who enforces them, and what a private FBPA lawsuit requires.

Categories Consumer Issues, Filing Complaints

Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act: What the DTPA Covers

September 27, 2026September 23, 2026 by Rachel Monroe

Chapter 17 of the Texas Business and Commerce Code is the state’s core consumer protection statute. What it prohibits, what a consumer can recover, the two-year deadline and the 60-day notice rule, the exemptions that take claims out of the Act, and which agency handles which kind of complaint.

Categories Consumer Issues, Filing Complaints

Florida Consumer Protection Laws: Your Rights and How to Enforce Them

September 27, 2026September 23, 2026 by Rachel Monroe

Florida’s consumer protection framework, from FDUTPA’s ban on unfair and deceptive practices to the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act, including who enforces each law, what a private lawsuit can recover, and the filing deadlines that apply.

Categories Consumer Issues, Filing Complaints

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