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Before You List Your Home For Sale: The Essential First Task

By Cathy Moran

Selling your home?   Before you list your home, before you interview a realtor, before you lift a paint brush, or clean a closet, you need to write a letter. A letter to the servicer of your mortgage. You want full disclosure of what charges, fees, expenses and other “stuff” they want to collect from […]

Filed Under: Real property & mortgages Tagged With: 2017, mortgage servicing

Fix Mortgage Troubles After Chapter 13

By Cathy Moran

mortgage mess

The mortgage servicer took less than 30 days to change its story, big time. In three weeks time, the servicer went from telling the bankruptcy court, under penalty of perjury, that the loan was current, to telling the homeowner that she was $50,000 behind. The whole story appears here. Three weeks! And there, in a […]

Filed Under: Life after bankruptcy, Real property & mortgages Tagged With: 2018, mortgage servicing

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About The Soapbox

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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What You Left Out Of Your Bankruptcy Schedules

One of the first questions a bankruptcy trustee will ask you at the hearing in your bankruptcy case is:  did you read the schedules before you signed them? The obvious, and expected, answer is YES. And if your answer is "yes", then the trustee can conclude that you stand behind the information that the … Read more

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