Help! I’ve Just Been Sued by a Creditor! What Do I Do Now?
Don’t react to getting lawsuit papers by avoiding them. Treat the lawsuit as a great incentive for taking the first step towards a better life.
The Dangers of Allowing a Creditor to Get a Judgment Against You
What you don’t know CAN hurt you, if it’s a judgment against you by a creditor. Judgments can hurt in three big ways. 1) They enable the creditor to use powerful collection mechanisms against you to collect the debt. 2) A judgment can rush you into filing bankruptcy at a legally disadvantageous time. 3) And […]
10 Big Reasons to Get Legal Advice about Bankruptcy Before Selling Your Home
The SINGLE overarching reason to get advice from a bankruptcy attorney before selling your home is to save money, possibly a great deal of money. I’ll tell you ten ways to do so—three today and then the rest in a couple blogs next Tuesday and Thursday. 1. Avoiding judgment liens: If some creditor has sued […]
Stopping the Foreclosure of Your Home Temporarily and Permanently through Bankruptcy
Both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 can help you save your home. Which one is better for YOU? You have almost for sure heard that the filing of a bankruptcy stops a foreclosure. You may have also heard that Chapter 13—the repayment version of bankruptcy—can be a good tool for saving your home in the […]
Ten Terrific Tools for Saving Your Home through Chapter 13–Part 2
Here are the other 5 powerful home-saving tools. Chapter 13 isn’t for everyone. But these tools, especially in combination, can often give you what you need to tackle and defeat your mortgage and other home-debt problems.
Ten Terrific Tools for Saving Your Home through Chapter 13–Part 1
Powerful Chapter 13 gives you tools to solve your mortgage problems from a number of different angles. Plus it gives you other tools to deal with tax, support, and judgment liens on your home.