Power to Preotect Your Home Against Your Mortgage Lender and Lienholders
If you want to hold onto your home, Chapter 13 gives you many extraordinary advantages.
Some Student Loan Borrowers Get Some Relief
About 1.6 million student loans borrowers are now able to make smaller monthly payments, and make less of these payments before the remaining balances are forgiven. Last October, President Obama announced these improvements to the Income-Based Repayment Plan. The changes are simple. 1. Monthly payments: Under the Income-Based Repayment Plan, payments are capped “at an […]
Chapter 13 Turns the Power of the “Automatic Stay” into a Superpower
If Chapter 7 strengthens your hand against your secured creditors, Chapter 13 turns you into Superman. It starts with a much more robust “automatic stay.”
Avoid the “Presumption of Fraud” for Using Credit Cards before Filing Bankruptcy
Using credit card cards when you’re thinking about filing bankruptcy, even to a relatively modest extent, can mean that you will have to pay back the amounts of those purchases if you file a bankruptcy. That could happen even if at the time you made those purchases you fully intended to repay that credit—in other […]
As the Middle Class Gets Smaller, More of Us Live in Income-Segregated Neighborhoods
Over the last 30 years in America, more of the rich are living among the rich, and more of the poor are living among the poor.
Power Over Your Secured Creditors in Chapter 7
Your secured creditors are often the ones you most care about, because the creditor can take your collateral. Chapter 7 strengthens your hand, improving your options.
Avoiding Judgments that Can Really Hurt You, and Hurt Your Bankruptcy
Many judgments against you don’t matter once you file a bankruptcy. But certain ones are very dangerous. How can you tell the difference? Letting a creditor get a judgment against you after it has sued you can sometimes result in that debt not being written off (“discharged”) in a later bankruptcy case. Or that debt […]
What if Protecting Your Home Is Your Highest Priority?
You may have serious financial problems but have still managed to keep current on your mortgage. How does bankruptcy NOT hurt your home but instead protects it?
Preserve Your Ability to File Bankruptcy at the Time You Want
Sometimes the timing of your bankruptcy filing hardly matters, but other times it’s huge. The three examples in this blog should convince you that you want to avoid being rushed to file your case because a creditor sued you earlier and is now garnishing your wages. Instead you want to preserve the ability to file […]
What is “Median Family Income,” and If You’re Making More Than That Can You Still File a Chapter 7 Case?
If your family income is more than the “median family income,” you may still be able to file under Chapter 7.