To a distressing extent, people in dire financial straits still worry that escaping overwhelming debt via bankruptcy will destroy their credit score. This article in Smart Money shows why filing bankruptcy can improve the debtor’s credit score and offers tips to get the most improvement following bankruptcy.
While I resist the growing importance of credit scores in non financial parts of our lives and the obsession among consumers with credit scores rather than “assets and liabilities”, it’s nice to have confirmed my contention that a discharged debtor is objectively a better credit risk after bankruptcy than he was before.
Cathy Moran
Bankruptcy in Brief
