I have a good friend in his early 50's who also has a sickness and wants to live out his time in the DR after seeing I was able to re-locate without much hardship..Only thing is he wants to just not pay off his medical bills and credit cards because he is unable to work..He claims he was told by a US attorney that if he did this he cannot ever come back to the USA..Is this true? I know that unless you are court ordered to pay things like child support they can come for you or is this also not the case..I don't want to give the guy bad advice and I am not in his position so I don't know how to answer him....I know a few people who have burned their bridges not wanting to return to the USA..But they went to other countries in South America and were never bothered...Since what they did was not criminal nobody came looking for them..They just let their credit score go to trash...What is the legal part of doing this..And please I was grilled by a Moderator for speaking the wrong phrase..So none of these He/She is a lowlife or a deadbeat..Because when someone has an illness they really don't care what you call them.. Just looking for an answer to tell this person..Since I am NO legal expert...Whatever I learned about the laws of the DR I basically got from DR1...This was not covered when I was gathering info last year for myself...