The Charleston (South Carolina) Review and Courier has posted an investigative piece describing the relationship of a South Carolina Law Firm, the Upstate Law Group, in a pension assignment operation.  The article is available online here. The names of the companies selling the pension assignments changed over the years, but the participation of Upstate Law […]

Just when I thought the pension assignment industry was dead, they keep popping back up. The current problem seems to be collection effords driven by the “investors” who purchase the pension assignments.  I have beeen dealing with these cases since 2014.  Below is from a blog entry that I wrote initially in 2015.  In my […]

We just did our third case in support of pensioners who got involved in pension assignment contracts.  In my opinion, these contracts are illegal not just from the point of view of the seller, but also from the point of view of the buyer as well.  From the seller’s point of view, they are disguised […]

Since I initially posted about Voyager Financial Group. I’ve received multiple calls from people who assigned military pensions.  It is illegal for enlisted military members to assign pensions under 37 U.S.C. 701.  (Commissioned officers may assign pensions up to certain limits.) 38 U.S.C. 5301 contains limits on assignability of V.A. pensions. It appears that there […]

I’ve been a lawyer for 27 years, more than half my live.  I’ve handled over 100,000 intakes in that time. Recently I was approached regarding a a type of transaction that I had never seen before. It involved pension factoring and a company called Voyager Financial Group, LLC.  Voyager approaches people who need money and […]