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Your Business Partnership Needs A Prenup

By Cathy Moran

business divorce

Financial partnerships are at least as challenging as marriages.  And business deals don’t have love to smooth the rough spots in the relationship. The traditional marriage service ends with the charge that what God has joined together,  let no man put asunder. That’s great with love, but not so great with money. Something will likely asunder […]

Filed Under: Consumer Rights, Small business

How Your Property Gets Sold In Your Partner’s Bankruptcy

By Cathy Moran

co owned property

It isn’t just marriage that can get you roped in to a bankruptcy case that isn’t your own. Own community property and a bankruptcy filing by your spouse or your soon-to-be ex can drag you into a bankruptcy court. But the issue is broader:  joint ownership of any kind of asset in any state, community […]

Filed Under: Consumer Rights, Small business

Four Essential Habits For Successful Entreprenuership

By Cathy Moran

Starting out in business for yourself?  Congratulations. Small business, and businesses that were once small, form the tapestry of our economy. I’ve run my own small business for coming 40 years and my favorite clients in my business are other small business people. But, in the euphoria and exhaustion of starting up, don’t put off doing […]

Filed Under: Managing Money, Small business

What Asset of Failed Business Is Most Valuable?

By Cathy Moran

Usually I rant about mistakes clients made when they incorporated their ongoing business. Come hard times for the business, those mistakes eat into our options for the owners survival when the corporation goes down. Invariably, the vendor accounts remain in the name of the proprietor, the stock may not have been issued, and it’s unclear whether there was an […]

Filed Under: Consumer Rights, Small business

Collections Is A Boogie Man For Businesses Too

By Cathy Moran

“Being sent to collections” is a boogie man for businesses as well as for individuals, I learned this week. I was counseling a small business with lots of vendor debt. We were looking for a strategy that could keep them in business. When I suggested that management sort their payables into vendors they needed and […]

Filed Under: Small business

Business credit card & bankruptcy

By Cathy Moran

Credit cards the business owner thinks of and uses for business may not be a debt of the business at all. Andy Miofsky addressed the fact that where the shareholder has guaranteed the debt of the corporation, the shareholder’s discharge in bankruptcy doesn’t relieve the corporation of liability. Lots of owners of incorporated small businesses […]

Filed Under: Small business

Preserving a Small Business through Bankruptcy

By Cathy Moran

Chip Parker and I have been writing about bankruptcy issues for the self employed over on the BankruptcyLawNetwork.Chip pointed out that the bankruptcy of the shareholder does not protect the operations of a corporation that the debtor owns, since the corporation is not in bankruptcy, the shareholder is.The flip side of that proposition is that […]

Filed Under: Small business

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You've arrived at the Bankruptcy Soapbox, a resource of bankruptcy information and consumer law.

Soapbox is a companion site to Bankruptcy in Brief, where I try to be largely explanatory and even handed (Note I said "try").

Here, I allow myself to tell stories and express strong opinions on how I think law should work for the consumer and small businesses when it comes to debt.

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High Income Earners Pass Bankruptcy’s Means Test

ALERT:   Being above the median income on the means test is not an automatic bar to filing bankruptcy I'm so used to railing against deliberate campaigns of misinformation about bankruptcy that I forget that there's a lot of innocent ignorance out there. Start with "qualifying" for bankruptcy. A very … Read more

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