Your bankruptcy can affect your family even though they haven’t filed bankruptcy. Transfer assets or repay debts , and you can expose family to attack by the bankruptcy trustee. Even if not fatal, the trustee’s bite can leave scars. How family gets sucked in I sat waiting for my turn at a bankruptcy hearing last week […]
What Your Signature On Your Bankruptcy Papers Really Says
Wish I had a buck for every time a client has told me, “Yes, I signed it, but I didn’t read it”. This is usually delivered as though the signature had no meaning if it wasn’t coupled with actual reading. Unfortunately, it isn’t so. Not true in commerce in general, and certainly not true when signing […]
The Zero Interest Get-Out-Of-Debt Tool: Bankruptcy For The Solvent
Once again, Chapter 13 rescued a client. He’ll get out of debt and pay off credit cards with no interest going forward. So many people tell me they could pay off the credit card balance if it wasn’t for the high interest. This client owned a home, had a job, and was solvent on paper, but […]
Chapter 13 To The Rescue In Ruinous Business Lawsuit
Twice in the last six months, Chapter 13 bankruptcy has saved clients facing catastrophic lawsuits arising out of business. And because the targets of these lawsuits filed bankruptcy before they’d spent a fortune on lawyers and before the court had a chance to award huge damages, they fit beneath the Chapter 13 debt limits. We […]
The Secret Bankruptcy Exemptions
Exemptions in bankruptcy are all about what you keep. Exemptions define the collection of assets and rights that are safe from the reach of a bankruptcy trustee or your creditors. But planning exemptions in a bankruptcy case is more than just the looking down the list of things you keep through bankruptcy and the dollar amount […]
Who Gets A Slice Of The Bankruptcy Pie?
“That woman filed a claim in our bankruptcy case, and we don’t owe her any money!” The next line, or paragraph really, of my client’s email asked what was I, her bankruptcy lawyer, going to do about it. The short answer was nothing. Nada. Not a thing. I didn’t plan to do anything. Because when […]
Bankruptcy Alphabet: Q is for Questions
The letter Q stands for Questions in my bankruptcy alphabet. Like the storied Light Brigade, “stormed at with shot and shell” , we in bankruptcy are peppered with questions, not cannons. Those considering bankruptcy have the profound questions:will bankruptcy improve my situation? what will I give up to get a bankruptcy discharge? what is life […]
V Is For Value In Bankruptcy Alphabet
The Letter V is for Value in my bankruptcy alphabet. The value of one’s assets drives exemptions and the question of what you get to keep through bankruptcy. The value of your assets that are subject to liens also determines whether you can void liens on those assets. I’m fond of saying that bankruptcy […]
What You Need To Know About Reaffirmation
Decisions, decisions. Are you going to reaffirm the car loan? Your bankruptcy filing requires that you state your intentions about reaffirmation right up front. Translated, that means what are you going to do about the car after bankruptcy. The car on which you still owe money and need to get to work. In the midst […]
How To Spend Money Before Filing Bankruptcy
Trying to spend down cash before filing bankruptcy? It’s time to talk about the float. Not the root beer float, though that would be more fun. The bank “float”: the period between writing a check and it clearing your bank. (We’ll talk about what to spend on before filing bankruptcy, too). When you file bankruptcy, […]
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