In Your Debt: How Couples Can Team up on Debt Repayment

In Your Debt: How Couples Can Team up on Debt Repayment
Your family members or friends borrowed your money but don't pay you back. You need to take some steps to collect your debts. Vadym aPastukh/Shutterstock
The Associated Press
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Between financially helping his parents and losing income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeremy Mazza landed into serious credit card debt. Relief came from a source he wasn’t expecting: his partner, Ginna Lambert, who had come into a small inheritance. She suggested “investing” part of her bounty in their shared future by lending small amounts to Mazza that he could apply toward his debt.

It took a bit of convincing.