Banks, most especially Wells Fargo, seem to relish denying refinance applications for debtors who didn’t reaffirm home mortgage in bankruptcy. You didn’t reaffirm your existing home loan, so we can’t refinance that debt, they chortle. Sometimes, the dig is even more painful (to me at least): your attorney didn’t do this right so you are […]
Reaffirm Your Car Loan: The Bankruptcy Fight You Hope To Lose
It isn’t often I go into bankruptcy court, hoping to lose. But when the issue is reaffirmation of a car loan, that’s the strategy. I desperately want the judge to deny approval of my client’s proposed reaffirmation of his car loan. And most of my judges will deliver, from the bench, the pitch I’ve made […]


