The paper approaches the issue of conceptualizing credit consumer overindebtedness, from the perspective of the over-indebtedness defining elements, of the over-indebtedness measurement models and of the causes of this patrimonial situation. The paper argues the idea of equivocality of the concept of consumer over-indebtedness, underlines the difficulty of adopting a set of criteria for measuring the indebtedness and highlights the complex cau...