According to a Federal Reserve Study more than 43% of all Americans spend more than they earn. That’s quite a large number of people. However this means that 1 out of every 100 families will probably file for bankruptcy in their lifetime. Debts should be taken only if you are sure that you can repay those debts. Else your interest costs will keep mounting and you would be taking more debts just to repay the old ones and falling in a classic case of debt trap.
However in this financial age, where almost anything can be bought on EMIs on monthly installments, you can also settle your debts in monthly installments. This is also one of the reasons why people purchase almost everything including furniture, baby food, and home furnishings on credit, which they find they are unable to pay. The cumulative amount gets bigger and bigger and they find themselves in a soup. However debt settlement can help you to tide over those problems. There are specialized agencies, which can reduce the tenure of the payments, the interest charges and make sure that creditors stop bothering you for the unpaid amounts.
They may however charge a fee dependent upon the amount of debt...