Law Office of Robert L. Firth June 8, 2015 Chapter 13 Protects Your Home from Your Mortgage Lender(s) and All Lienholders Here are 8 ways the “adjustment of debts” version of consumer bankruptcy can help you save your home. Read More
Law Office of Robert L. Firth June 1, 2015 Chapter 13 Protects You Longer and More Strongly from Your Secured Creditors The “automatic stay” is in effect for years, enabling the tools of Chapter 13 to work, while the “co-debtor stay” protects your co-signers. Read More
Law Office of Robert L. Firth May 25, 2015 Chapter 7 Gives You Power Over Your Secured Creditors Your secured debts are the most dangerous because the creditors can take your collateral. Chapter 7 improves your options with them. Read More
Law Office of Robert L. Firth May 18, 2015 How to Pass the “Means Test” and File a Chapter 7 Case If Your “Income” is Higher than the Allowed “Median Family Income” If your income is more than the published median amount you may still be able to do a Chapter 7 “straight bankruptcy.” Read More
Law Office of Robert L. Firth May 11, 2015 Ten Truths about Protecting Assets with Exemptions in Bankruptcy Most of the time you get to keep whatever you own when you file bankruptcy. The following ten truths will give you the reassurances that you need and help you be aware of issues before they become problems. Read More
Law Office of Robert L. Firth May 4, 2015 What Could Complicate Your Otherwise Simple Bankruptcy Case? What about your financial life could result in a not so simple bankruptcy case? Read More
Law Office of Robert L. Firth April 27, 2015 More about Debts Whose Write-off Can be Challenged in Bankruptcy It’s quite uncommon for a creditor to challenge your write-off of its debt. Here’s more about what happens if one does. Read More
Law Office of Robert L. Firth April 20, 2015 Debts Whose Write-off Can Be Challenged in Bankruptcy Occasionally the bankruptcy court may need to decide whether you can discharge a debt which the creditor doesn’t want to be discharged. Read More
Law Office of Robert L. Firth April 15, 2015 Debts Sold or Assigned to Collection Agencies What happens if you list a creditor in your bankruptcy case but, unknown to you, it sold the debt to a collection agency that you don’t list? Read More
Law Office of Robert L. Firth April 13, 2015 More About How Bankruptcy Can Really Help Even if It Doesn’t Write Off Every Debt More examples of how bankruptcy actually works, and works well, even when a major debt can’t be discharged. Read More