Households with an annual income of $54,000 or less can have their tax returns prepared for free through the Bay Area United Way’s Earn It, Keep It, Save It program. Earned Income Tax Credit The Earn It, Keep It, Save It campaign is particularly focused on enabling qualifying individuals and families to access this tax […]
How Much Cash Can You Keep In Bankruptcy?
How much money can you keep when you file bankruptcy? It’s not as though you won’t have living expenses after you file bankruptcy. You need to know how you’ll manage and what you’ll have to manage with. Funding that fresh start is what exemptions are all about. We are talking here about California because exemptions, […]
The Easiest Business Loan In Town
Running a small business is hard work. Cash flow is tight; time is in short supply. When there’s just not enough in the bank to cover payroll, the easiest loan in town is from the Bank of Uncle Sam. There’s no application, no review, no waiting. You just give employees their checks, net of […]
Why Bankruptcy Means Test Is Paper Tiger In Bay Area
Bankruptcy’s means test is a paper tiger in the San Francisco Bay Area. Really! You can see why few Bay Area residents are constrained by the means test when you compare the latest median income figures used in the means test with the allowed cost of rental housing here. To review: Congress in 2005 tried to write […]
Who Gets Grannie’s Cash – Grannie Or The Bankruptcy Trustee?
When there’s a joint bank account and a bankruptcy filing, good intentions can quickly go sour. The bankruptcy trustee sees a pile of money in the bank to which the debtor has access, even though the account also bears the name of someone not in bankruptcy. If the debtor can get the money, the trustee […]
Marital Separation Doesn’t Require Two Homes
Split the sheets in California, and your wages are no longer community property. That’s because property acquired during marriage but after a marital separation isn’t community property. That’s been California law for a long while. The sticky wicket has been drawing the line when the marriage has broken down and the couple has separated. “When” they separated determines […]
California Courts Provide On Line Help
Individuals with matters before the state courts of California have an updated resource in the Self Help Center. The information here can be either good background if you have a legal problem or a treasure-trove if you expect to represent yourself in court. It even includes a section on bankruptcy, as part of the materials […]
New California Bankruptcy Exemptions
Californians filing bankruptcy got an increase in the exemptions that protect their assets on April 1, 2019. New: exemptions for money in the bank added in 20202 Every three years, the dollar amounts are adjusted for changes in the cost of living. Californians don’t get to protect possessions under the Bankruptcy Code’s exemptions. Instead, a […]
California Statute of Limitations Gets Teeth
California law on debt collection finally has teeth. Recent changes to California law say that a debt collector must allege that the statute of limitations has not run when it files a lawsuit. No more suing on long-dead debt and winning unless the consumer files an answer and pleads the statute of limitations. No more […]
California Renter Protections From Eviction: How To Qualify
California bans evictions for non payment triggered by the COVID-19 shut-down under Gov. Newsom’s executive order of March 27,2020. The protection comes with a big IF: A tenant must act to trigger these protections, which run through May 31,2020. Who is protected The order covers tenants who have been laid off had hours cut suffered […]
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