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The Ramsey Show

I'm Buried in Debt

The Ramsey Show

Ramsey Network

Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.538.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Dave Ramsey & Dr. John Delony answer your questions and discuss: "I'm running out of money to fight for custody," "Should I wait to pay off my house?" "Making wise plans for our future family," "Am I on Baby Step 2 or Baby Step 7?" "How soon should we pay off our mortgage?" "How do you explain paying off a home with a low monthly payment/balance?" "We are scared to go into debt for a house" "Should we update our house even if we move later?" "I owe over $200K in student debt, what do I do?" "How can I help my mother with her spending?" "How do I get out of my 19% interest car loan?" "How do I access funds in retirement?" "Should I downsize now that the kids are gone?" "Am I too old to take out a student loan?" Have a question for the show? Call 888-825-5225 Weekdays from 2-5pm ET Support Our Sponsors: Churchill Mortgage BetterHelp Zander Insurance Balance of Nature Neighborly Need help with your taxes? See who we trust. Protect yourself with the right coverage—take our coverage quiz! Have more money and less stress with George Kamel's NEW book, Breaking Free From Broke! Want a plan for your money? Find out where to start: Click Here Listen to all The Ramsey Network podcasts: Click Here Interested in advertising on The Ramsey Show? Click Here Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy

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0:00.0

The Oh, Live from the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions, it's the Ramsey Show, where we help people build wealth, do work that they love, and create actual amazing relationships.

0:44.0

Open phones this hour as we talk about your life and your money.

0:47.0

It's a free call and some say the advice is worth exactly what you pay for it.

0:51.0

The number is AAA 825 5

0:53.7

225 that's triple 8 825 8 2.5. Dr. John Deloney number one

0:59.9

best-selling author Ramsey personality and host of the Dr John Deloney show, a very, very popular

1:05.7

podcast on the Ramsey Networks, is my co-host today.

1:09.0

So we're going to be talking with you, again, Triple 8, 5 5 2. 5.

1:13.4

Ben's in Salt Lake City.

1:15.2

Hey Ben, welcome to the Ramsey Show.

1:17.2

Hey Ben, or uh, hey Dave and John,

1:21.6

thank you for your time today.

1:23.4

Sure. How can we help sure?

1:24.7

Hey so I'll just try to skim over the top real quick.

1:30.0

I am a full-time single dad and I was on baby step two when I got sued by my ex for custody and so I've put everything on hold, then trying to cash flow through the

1:47.4

process that started back in September and basically I'm starting to run out of money and I know there's a lot more expenses coming up.

2:02.0

I'm looking for a way to be able to do that because I don't want to lose my son and I'm trying to decide whether to take a loan or if I can go on anymore you know what I mean so.

2:18.9

What's the basis of the custody suit?

2:32.0

Um. custody suit? She just, so she lives on the other side of the country and she just wants to basically flip it. She said he's not you know been cheated well and and he's

2:39.6

struggling and and things like that but he's he's he's doing very well with friends in school and

2:46.7

and he's being taken care of so that's her argument for her but she

2:51.5

her attitude is basically she's going to, we tried to work it out of court,

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