When Samantha Galsic needed $15,000 in four months to pay legal fees to gain full custody of her three-year-old daughter, she felt overwhelmed and angry.
"I didn't know how I was going to pull off coming up with an extra $15,000 here and there," Galsic said.
After making her first payment of $5,000 from savings, the registered nurse found that her income tripled and she was able to pay $5,000 the next month quite easily.
"I was ecstatic when I noticed that the more I...

Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder and CEO of Facebook, has joined dozens of other billionaires in pledging to give away the majority of his wealth to charity.
Zuckerberg, whose net worth is estimated to be at least $4 billion, announced Thursday that he would join the Giving Pledge, a philanthropic effort organized by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to encourage the wealthiest Americans to give away their fortunes.
“People wait until late in their career to give...