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- Bankruptcy Protects Your Assets
- Protection from Creditors through the Automatic Stay
- The “Automatic Stay” for Married Couples
- The “Automatic Stay” in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
- Preference Law May Force a Creditor to Surrender Your Garnished Wages
- Federal Bankruptcy Law Defeats State Garnishment Law
- Chapter 13 Protects You Longer and More Strongly from Your Secured Creditors
- How is a Chapter 13 Plan Payment Determined?
- Close Down Your Small Business, Get a Fresh Financial Start
- Watch Out for Money Still in Your Checking Account on the Day Your Bankruptcy is Filed
- Taking the “Means Test” All the Way to Its End
- The “Means Test” Tries to Be Objective
- Taking Advantage of the Rigidity of the Chapter 7 “Means Test”
- The Easiest Way to Pass the Chapter 7 “Means Test”
- Is a Living Trust the Same as A Living Will?
- Major Advantages of Chapter 13 “Adjustment of Debts”
- Easily Preventable Mistakes to Avoid–Don’t Be Nice to Special Creditors
- How to Obtain a Death Certificate in Riverside County, CA
- Personal Representatives in Cathedral City, CA – Be Responsible!
- Bankruptcy in Coachella Valley: When You Should File
- Handling Your Parents’ Estate in Cathedral City, CA
- Debt Negotiation versus Chapter 13
- Fiduciaries & What to Consider in Choosing Them
- Estate Planning in Cathedral City: What About Your Personal Property?
- Bankruptcy and Student Loans: Can Student Loans be Discharged?
- Bankruptcy & Joint Accounts in Coachella Valley
- Keep Your Vehicle with More Time to Catch Up and a Lower Monthly Payment
- I Know What My Bankruptcy Trustee Does, But How about the U. S. Trustee?
- The Multiple Roles of Your Chapter 13 Trustee
- The Easiest Way to a Smooth Chapter 7 Case Is Cooperating with Your Trustee
- Who Are the Three Different Bankruptcy Trustees?
- Priority Debts in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
- Personal Representatives: Responding to Claims Against the Estate
- What Are Priority Debts and Why Are They Important?
- Do Bankruptcy Filing Go Up or Down As Credit Becomes More Available?
- The Surprising Benefits: Chapter 13 Potentially Discharges Divorce Property Settlement Debts
- The Surprising Benefits: Discharge Divorce Property Settlement Debts
- The Impact of One Spouse’s Bankruptcy Filing on a Divorce Proceeding
- Escaping a Chapter 13 Case Filed Jointly with Your Spouse
- The Surprising Benefits: Escape from Your Vehicle Lease in Bankruptcy
- Considerations about Filing Bankruptcy After Your Divorce If You’ve Filed Before
- Effect of Divorce on Filing Bankruptcy Again
- The Surprising Benefits: Ending Your Vehicle Lease Under Chapter 13
- The Surprising Benefits: Keeping Your Vehicle Lease Under Chapter 7
- The Surprising Benefits: Keeping Your Vehicle Lease Under Chapter 13
- Mistakes to Avoid–Don’t Surrender Your Vehicle or Get It Repossessed
- Qualify for A Vehicle Loan “Cramdown” by Filing Your Chapter 13 Case at The Right Time
- Keeping a Vehicle with A Debt Under Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy”
- Your Vehicle Loan Options in a Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy” Case
- Your Vehicle Loan Options in A Chapter 13 “Adjustment of Debts” Case
- Conditions When Divorcing Spouses Should Consider Filing a Chapter 7 Together
- How Bankruptcy Deals with Your Vehicle Loan if You Want to Keep Your Vehicle
- How Bankruptcy Helps if You’re Behind on Your Vehicle Loan
- Chapter 13 Enables You to Keep Your Vehicle, and Often for Less Money
- Can and Should Divorcing Spouses File a Chapter 7 Together?
- How Bankruptcy Can Help if You’re Worried About Getting Your Car or Truck Repossessed
- Divorce and Bankruptcy Q&As
- How Chapter 13 Can Help Beyond Stopping Repossession of Your Car or Truck
- Vehicle Debts Under Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
- Can You Ever Write Off Child or Spousal Support in Bankruptcy?
- Bankruptcy in the U.S. Constitution
- Use Chapter 13 if You’re Behind on Your Vehicle Loan
- Chapter 7 vs. Chapter 13 and Your Vehicle Loan
- Priority Debt for Intoxicated Driving
- Chapter 13’s Tools for Your Vehicle Loan
- Priority Debts
- 13 Ways Bankruptcy Helps You with Your Vehicle
- Your Debts in Bankruptcy
- The Surprising Benefits: Getting Back Your Repossessed Vehicle
- The Surprising Benefits: Resolving the “Preference” Problem through Chapter 13
- The Surprising Benefits: Saving Your Vehicle Through Bankruptcy
- The Surprising Benefits: Resolving the “Preference” Problem through Negotiation
- The Surprising Benefits: Solving an Uncomfortable “Preference” Problem
- The Surprising Benefits: Saving Your Vehicle Better Through Chapter 13
- The Surprising Benefits: An Example of Vehicle Loan Cramdown
- Keep Your Vehicle by Reaffirming its Loan
- Keep Your Vehicle without Reaffirmation
- The Surprising Benefits: A “Preference” Payment to a Relative or Friend
- Keep Your Vehicle Through Cramdown
- The Surprising Benefits: Use “Preference” Money to Pay a Favored Debt
- Qualifying for A Vehicle Loan Cramdown
- The Bankruptcy Code
- Cramdown Your Vehicle Loan if Behind on Payments
- An Example of Money Saved Through Vehicle Loan Cramdown
- Bankruptcy Timing for Vehicle Cramdown
- How Do You Decide Whether to File Bankruptcy?
- Stop Vehicle Surrender or Repossession
- Chapter 13 Buys More Time with Your Vehicle Loan
- The Chapters of Bankruptcy
- Hello World!
- Recovery for Emotional Distress Because of Foreclosure After a Loan Modification Was Promised
- Be Careful About a Recently Dismissed Bankruptcy Case
- When a Creditor Accuses You of Misusing Credit
- Bankruptcy Helps with Debt Problems Even without Writing off Every Debt
- How to Pay Special Creditors after You File Bankruptcy
- Do’s and Don’t of Bankruptcy
- Redeeming Property in Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
- What Is a Automatic Stay in Bankruptcy?
- Frequently Asked Questions About a Living Trust
- Bankruptcy Liens
- The Common Misconception About Hurricane Insurance.
- What to Do and NOT Do when Your Wages Have Been Garnished
- Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: The Top Five Reasons to File a Chapter 13
- Good News from The Fiscal Cliff for Underwated Homeowners
- The Founder of Chase Bank? Our Country’s Least Favorite Founding Father
- I’ve Been Sued on A Debt but The Court Date Is Over a Year from Now. What Do I Do?
- Tort Remedies
- Understanding the Short Sale Transaction
- New Years Resolution: Get an Estate Plan
- Landlords: The Best Way to Avoid an Unlawful Detainer Is to Screen Your Tenant Applicants
- When Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy” is Not So Straightforward
- Why You Should or Should Not Worry About Creditors Objecting in Your Bankruptcy Case
- The Expenses Step of the Chapter 7 “Means Test”
- Choosing the Right Solution in a Closed-Business Bankruptcy Case
- Your Attorney Can Usually Tell You Which of Your Debts Will Be Discharged in Bankruptcy
- Understanding Debts
- Easily Preventable Mistakes to Avoid While Considering Bankruptcy
- Health Insurance and Bankruptcy
- The Best Bankruptcy Advice: Get Legal Advice
- Protection from Your Homeowners’ Association
- Protecting Excess Home Equity through Chapter 13
- Protecting Future Home Equity through Chapter 7
- Filing Chapter 13 in December (or January!) May Greatly Shorten Your Case
- Chapter 7 vs. Chapter 13 and the Time Element
- When File a “Chapter 20”?
- What’s “Chapter 20”?
- When It Makes Sense to File Bankruptcy Too Soon to Discharge Debts
- Independence from Debt
- Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Can . . . Remove a Judgment Lien
- “Converting” from Chapter 13 into Chapter 7
- Changing Your Chapter 7 Case into a Chapter 13 One
- Spouse Reluctant to Join Bankruptcy to Discharge Debts
- Married Couples under Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
- More Complicated Debts under Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
- The Benefits of Both “Asset” and “No Asset” Chapter 7 After Closing Down a Business
- Robert L. Firth Named Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney of The Year
- Simple Debts under Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
- Your Bankruptcy Options if You Owe Income Taxes After Closing Your Business
- The First Question to Ask Your Bankruptcy Attorney
- Do I Need a Living Trust?
- A Rule of Thumb about Choosing between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
- The Persistent Myth About Taxes and Bankruptcy
- The Four Conditions for Writing Off Income Taxes in Bankruptcy
- Chapter 13 Handles Both Older and Newer Income Tax Debts
- Close Your Business While Resolving Your Tax Debts though Bankruptcy
- The Most Important Choice in Bankruptcy
- The Effects of An Income Tax Lien
- I Need a Bankruptcy But Already Filed One a Few Years Ago
- How Can You Protect Your Co-Signer in a Bankruptcy Case?
- Can Bankruptcy Get You Out of Student Loans?
- How Bankruptcy Handles Debts You Want to Pay
- Although You Can’t Discharge (Write Off) Debts Arising from a Criminal Conviction, Still Consider the Benefits of Bankruptcy
- Student Loans in Bankruptcy
- Are You Eligible to File a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Case? How About a Chapter 13 One?
- The Surprising Benefits: Stop Student Loan Collection
- The Surprising Benefits: Deal with Student Loan Collection with Chapter 13
- Bankruptcy Can Write Off a Student Loan, if It Causes Undue Hardship
- Student Loan Changes in the CARES Act
- Bankruptcy Timing to Discharge Student Loans
- Chapter 7 Timing to Discharge Student Loans
- Chapter 13 Timing to Discharge Student Loans
- Student Loan Moratorium Extended Through September 2021
- Get Bankruptcy Advice BEFORE Selling Your Home
- Three More Good Reasons to Get Bankruptcy Advice Before Selling Your Home
- More Good Reasons to Get Bankruptcy Advice Before Selling Your Home
- Property Tax Debt–another Reason to Get Bankruptcy Advice Before Selling Your Home
- The Final and Best Reason to Get Bankruptcy Advice Before Selling Your Home
- Short Sales of Your Home–Sometimes Necessary, Often End Not as You Expected
- Chapter 13 Really Helps Delay Your Home Sale
- Bankruptcy Helps You Sell Your Home
- Chapter 13 Helps You Sell Your Home
- Secured Debts, the Focus of Many Bankruptcies
- Doing a “Cramdown” on Collateral Other than Your Vehicle
- Keeping Collateral Under Chapter 13, to Potentially Surrender It Later
- Chapter 7 vs. Chapter 13 and Your Personal Property Collateral
- Chapter 7 vs. Chapter 13 and Your Collateral
- Chapter 7 if You’re Behind on Your Home or Vehicle
- Choose between Your Prior and Present State’s Property Exemptions When You Have Timing Flexibility
- 12 Questions While Dealing with Collateral Other than Your Home or Vehicle
- Why You Should Not Allow a Creditor to Get a Default Judgment against You
- Cramdown on Furniture and Other Personal Property Debts
- Which is Better for Saving Your Home, Chapter 7 or 13?
- Timing of Non-Vehicle Collateral Cramdown
- Choosing Between Filing Chapter 7 and 13–Easy or Not?
- 7 Quick And Inexpensive Ways You Can Improve Your Home’s Curb Appeal
- 3 Common First Time Home Buyer Mistakes Can Cost Thousands
- Fraudulent Transfers Around the Holidays
- The Surprising Benefits: Reinstating Your Driver’s License Suspended for Unpaid Tickets
- Bankruptcy Stops a Property Tax Foreclosure
- Surprising Bankruptcy Benefits: Make Creditors Return Your Money
- Can You File Bankruptcy If You Are Not a U.S. Citizen?
- How to Pass the “Means Test” and File a Chapter 7 Case If Your “Income” is Higher than the Allowed “Median Family Income”
- A Dozen Surprising Benefits of Bankruptcy
- Successfully Completing a Chapter 7 Case
- The Confirmation Hearing in a Chapter 13 Case
- Limits on the Amount of Your Debts When Filing a Chapter 13 “Adjustment of Debts”
- If You Filed Bankruptcy Before, When Exactly Can You File Again?
- Satisfying the Credit Counseling Requirement
- Pass the Means Test by Filing Bankruptcy in 2018
- An Example Why Passing the Means Test May Be Easier in 2018
- An Example of a “Preference”
- Scenario: Filing Chapter 13 Now Shortens a Case by Two Years
- Disadvantages of a Badly-Timed 5-Year Chapter 13 Case
- When It Pays To Refinance Your Mortgage — Literally
- If You File a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy with An Attorney You Are Nearly Ten Times More Likely to Reach Your Goal of Writing Off Your Debts
- Simplified Home Loan Modification Program Recently Announced
- Additional Charges and Curing Your Mortgage Arrearage
- Paying Missed Mortgage Forbearance Payments
- Bankruptcy Advantages with The Foreclosure Moratorium
- $1,200 Coming Soon to Most U.S. Adults
- The Trustee at the Chapter 7 “Meeting of Creditors”
- You Can Write Off Some Income Taxes with A “Straight Bankruptcy”
- Chapter 13 Handles Tough Income Tax Debts
- The “Meeting of Creditors” in a Chapter 7 Case
- What to Do if You Just Got a “Final Notice of Intent to Levy” from The IRS
- The Chapter 7 and 13 Trustees, and the U.S. Trustee
- The Bankruptcy Clerk and the Bankruptcy Judge
- Who Does What in Your Bankruptcy Case?
- The Debtor, Creditors, and Clerk in a Bankruptcy Case
- Property Exemptions for Married Couples
- Who Does What in a Consumer Bankruptcy Case?
- Bankruptcy Stops Ongoing Wage Garnishments and Prevents Future Ones
- Ten Truths about Protecting Assets with Exemptions in Bankruptcy
- More about Debts Whose Write-off Can be Challenged in Bankruptcy
- Debts Whose Write-off Can Be Challenged in Bankruptcy
- Are You Allowed to Be More Fair to Some Creditors than Others?
- Got a Tax Return Extension to October 15 so Just Filed My Taxes and Owe a Lot
- I Just Filed My Taxes on October 15, I Owe Much, and Need Much Help
- Married Couples’ Protection Against Income Tax Debt Collection
- Income Taxes and Self-Interest in a Marriage
- Paying Your 2015 Income Taxes in An “Asset Chapter 7” Case
- Advantages of Paying Your 2015 Income Tax through Chapter 13
- What Happens to Income Taxes in Bankruptcy
- Writing Off Income Taxes Through Chapter 7
- Chapter 7 Helps with Income Tax Debt Even without Writing Off Any of It
- Your Income Tax Debt Paid through an “Asset Chapter 7 Case”
- Chapter 13 Advantages for Resolving Income Tax Debts
- Automatic and Immediate Protection from Your Creditors
- The “Automatic Stay” Stops the IRS
- Including Current-Year Income Taxes in Your Chapter 13 Case
- Why Can’t a Creditor Chase You After Your Bankruptcy?
- Keeping All that You Own in Bankruptcy
- Be Able to Write Off More Debts by Not Being Rushed into Filing Bankruptcy Too Quickly
- Advantages of Being in Control of the Timing of Your Bankruptcy Filing
- Write Off More Income Taxes Through Pre-Bankruptcy Planning
- Appreciating the Awesome “Automatic Stay”
- 5 Crucial Facts about Income Taxes in Bankruptcy
- Make Sure You Do Qualify for the Essential “Automatic Stay”
- Specific Creditor Actions that Aren’t Stopped by a Bankruptcy Filing
- 5 More Crucial Facts about Income Taxes in Bankruptcy
- Why STATE Property Exemption Laws Can Be Used in FEDERAL Bankruptcies
- Avoiding Paying Prior Employee Debt
- The Surprising Benefits: Break a Tax Payment Plan Through Chapter 7
- Paying Employee Debt in Chapter 13
- Paying Employee Debt in Bankruptcy
- The Surprising Benefits: Break a Tax Payment Plan through Chapter 13
- The Surprising Benefits: Stop Income Tax Collection
- The Surprising Benefits: Chapter 7 Stops the Recording of An Income Tax Lien
- The Surprising Benefits: Chapter 13 Stops the Recording of An Income Tax Lien
- The Surprising Benefits: Chapter 7 After the Recording of An Income Tax Lien
- Commissions Owed to Independent Contractor
- The Surprising Benefits: Chapter 13 After the Recording of An Income Tax Lien
- Wages Owed to an Employee
- Continue Operating Your Business by Gaining Control over Tax Debts
- Chapter 7 Can . . . Help You Close Your Business by Giving Your Bankruptcy Trustee the Headache of Selling Your Last Business Assets
- The Surprising Benefits: An Income Tax Lien on A Tax that Can’t Be Discharged
- Chapter 7 Can . . . Help You Close Your Business But Keep Business Assets
- The Surprising Benefits: Chapter 13 Handles an Income Tax Lien on A Tax that Can’t Be Discharged
- Collection against Your Business Not “Stayed” by Your Personal Bankruptcy
- Chapter 7 Can . . . Help You Avoid or Escape a Business Lawsuit
- Filing Bankruptcy in 2019 to Write Off More Income Taxes
- Chapter 7 Can . . . Help You Deal with Secured Debts from Your Closed Business
- Filing Chapter 13 in 2019 to Write Off More Income Taxes
- Include 2018 Income Taxes in A Chapter 13 Case Filed in 2019
- Chapter 7 Can . . . Help You Deal with Taxes from Your Closed Business
- If You Owe Both 2018 and Earlier Income Taxes
- Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Can . . . Help You Walk Away from Your Business
- Bankruptcy Writes Off (Some) Income Taxes
- Prevent Future Income Tax Liens
- Avoid Income Tax Liens with Chapter 7
- Avoid Income Tax Liens with Chapter 13
- Priority Income Tax Debts Under Chapter 13
- Paying Income Taxes Through Chapter 13
- If Your Business Can File Its Own Bankruptcy, Should It?
- A Chapter 13 Plan to Pay Income Tax
- Can Your Business File Bankruptcy?
- Business Litigation that Continues After You File Bankruptcy
- Tax Filing and Payment Extended to July 15
- Unfiled Tax Returns and Bankruptcy
- If You Owe Lots of Business Debt You Can Maybe Skip the “Means Test” and Qualify for Chapter 7
- Resolve Your Income and Business Taxes through Bankruptcy While Continuing to Operate Your Business
- Practical Considerations about Accusations of Business Fraud and Bankruptcy
- Close Your Business But Protect Yourself
- Save Your Sole Proprietorship Business through Chapter 13
- Business Disputes that Follow You Into Your Bankruptcy Case
- Timing Bankruptcy to Discharge Income Taxes
- Timing Chapter 13 to Discharge Income Taxes
- Avoiding Income Tax Interest and Penalties
- Unemployment Benefits Not Taxed
- If You Owe Taxes (Even if Unemployment Benefits Aren’t Taxed)
- If You Already Owe Income Taxes
- Home Prices Accelerate in 2013 With Double Digit Growth
- Federal Limit on The Amount of Your Homestead Exemption
- Protecting Your Home Equity Through Chapter 7
- Are These Sensible Reasons to Do A Short Sale? Maybe, Maybe Not
- Catching Up on Your Mortgage through Chapter 13–Part 1
- A Sample Simple Save-Your-Business Chapter 13 Case
- Filing a Chapter 7 Case to Save Your Business
- Catching up On Your Mortgage Through Chapter 13–part 2
- Bankruptcy: a Tool for Business Success
- Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Can . . . Help You Leave Your Mortgage Behind
- New Helpful Bankruptcy Law Change
- Chapter 7 vs. Chapter 13 and Your Home Mortgage
- Chapter 13’s Tools for Your Home Mortgage
- More Bankruptcy Benefits for Your Home
- Bankruptcy Helps You Afford Your Mortgage
- New Modified 7-Year Chapter 13 Plans
- Chapter 13 Gives the Most Time to Cure Your Mortgage
- Consumer Bankruptcy Changes in the CARES Act
- Bankruptcy May Strip Off a Junior Mortgage
- Resolve Mortgage Accounting Disagreements
- Setting the Record Straight About Whether You Can File a Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy” Case
- Priority Debts in a Chapter 13 Case
- Fully Complying with Your Chapter 13 Case
- The Meeting of Creditors in a Chapter 13 Case
- Protecting Your Co-Signer Better through a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
- More Powers of a Simple Chapter 13 Case
- Chapter 13 Gives You Lots More Time to Pay Crucial Creditors
- Get Chapter 13 Help for Special Debts
- Consequences of Voluntarily Dismissing Your Chapter 13 Case
- Getting Out of Your Chapter 13 Case If Needed
- The Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Trustee
- Chapter 13 Protects Your Home from Your Mortgage Lender(s) and All Lienholders
- Pandemic Mortgage Forbearance
- Showing Off Chapter 13’s Tools for Saving Your Home–Part 2
- Showing Off Chapter 13’s Tools for Saving Your Home–Part 1
- What Happens to Most of Your Debts under Chapter 13 “Adjustment of Debts”?
- Chapter 13 Can Especially Protect Your Co-Signers
- 20 Ways Bankruptcy Helps You Keep Your Home
- The Pursuit of Happiness This 4th of July
- The Truly Amazing History of Bankruptcy Law
- U.S. Bankruptcy Laws Took Very Long to Get Off the Ground
- What a Simple Chapter 13 Case Looks Like
- The Point of Bankruptcy in the U.S. Constitution: Fairness and Compassion
- Keeping All that You Own by Filing a Chapter 13 Case
- Another 5 Big Ways Chapter 13 Can Save Your Home
- 5 Big Ways Chapter 13 Can Save Your Home
- Chapter 7 Bankruptcy only Buys You Limited Extra Time for Your Home, but It May Be Enough for What You Need
- Qualifying for Chapter 13
- Putting a Stop, at Least Temporarily, to Your Home’s Foreclosure
- The “Automatic Stay” Stops a Home Foreclosure either Temporarily or Permanently
- Short Extension to Foreclosure Moratorium
- Enhanced Unemployment Benefits Under the CARES Act
- Protecting Your Pandemic Relief Payment from Creditors
- Priority Debts in an Asset Chapter 7 Case
- Protecting Your Pandemic Relief Payment from Your Bank
- Protecting Your Co-Signer in a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
- What Makes a Simple Chapter 7 Case
- Consumer Bankruptcies Not Increasing–Yet
- Complications to a Chapter 7 Case
- Trump’s $400 Weekly Unemployment Benefits Extension
- States’ Reactions to Trump’s Unemployment Benefits Extension
- New Federal Eviction Moratorium
- Bankruptcy and The Eviction Moratorium
- “Dismissing” Your Chapter 7 Case
- The Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee
- Chapter 7 Gives You Power Over Your Secured Creditors
- Chapter 13 and The Eviction Moratorium
- Federal Eviction Moratorium Update
- New Pandemic Relief Law Agreement
- Trump Signs Pandemic Relief Law After All
- Status of the $600 Pandemic Relief Payments
- Newly Reinstated Federal Unemployment Benefits
- Eviction Moratorium Extended Through March 2021
- Get 6 Months of Your Health Insurance Premium Paid
- Affordable Care Act Enrollment Deadline of August 15, 2021
- What Are the Different Types of Trusts in California?
- Top 5 Questions About California Probate
- If I Have a Trust, Do I Need a Will?
- Discharge of Your Debts: THE Goal of Bankruptcy
- Who Needs an Estate Plan?
- Can a Durable Power of Attorney Help You?
- Filing a Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy” Whether You Make More or Less than the “Median Family Income”
- What Do I Need to Know About an Advanced Health Care Directive?
- What to Do if You’ve Been Sued by A Creditor
- When You Should Avoid Using Chapter 13 to Save Your Home
- What Happens to Most of Your Debts in Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy”?
- What Is the Difference Between a Will and Living Trust in California?
- When a Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy” Helps You Enough on Your Home
- Paying Unpaid Child/Spousal Support before Bankruptcy
- What Estate Planning Issues Should I Handle During the Coronavirus Pandemic?
- A Chapter 13 Plan to Catch up on Past-Due Support
- Catching up on Support through Chapter 13
- Conditions for Stopping Support Collections in Chapter 13
- Unpaid Child and Spousal Support in Chapter 13
- Unpaid Child and Spousal Support in Chapter 7
- Six Estate Planning Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs
- Avoid a Support Lien through Bankruptcy
- Bankruptcy Does Not Write Off Child or Spousal Support Debts
- The Surprising Benefits: Stop Collection of Support Arrearage
- The Surprising Benefits: Reinstating a Driver’s License
- Crucial Facts about Child and Spousal Support in Bankruptcy
- Priority Debts in a No-Asset Chapter 7 Case
- Can Bankruptcy Help If Support Enforcement Has Garnished Your Paycheck and Is Threatening to Do Worse
- Prevent Future Judgment Liens
- Bankruptcy Can Remove a Judgment Lien
- The Discharge of Your Debts Under Chapter 7
- The Risks in Discharging Debts for “Luxury Goods or Services” and Cash Advances
- The Surprising Benefits: Removing a Judgment Lien on Your Home
- How Bankruptcy Can Really Help Even if It Doesn’t Write Off Every Debt
- What to Do if You and Your Co-Signer Just Got Sued
- How Bankruptcy Helps Immediately If You’re Sued by a Creditor
- More About How Bankruptcy Can Really Help Even if It Doesn’t Write Off Every Debt
- The Most Important Things to Know If You Get Sued by a Creditor
- The Discharge (Write-off) of Debts for Married Couples
- Criminal Fines and Restitution Not Written Off in Bankruptcy
- Your Simple Debts, Your Complicated Debts
- Chapter 7 if You Can’t Off All Your Debts
- The Discharge of Debts in Bankruptcy
- The Exceptions to the Discharge of Debts
- Bankruptcy’s Role If You Have Criminal Debts
- Avoiding Bankruptcy Crimes
- Dealing with a Civil Lawsuit Related to Criminal Charges
- Satisfying the Debtor Education Requirement
- Bankruptcy Helps Even If It Can’t Write off Criminal Debts
- The Trustee’s Role in Any Opposition to A Chapter 7 Discharge
- The Surprising Benefits: Fraud Debt Collections in Bankruptcy
- Prevent Fraud Challenges on a Credit Card Debt
- Writing Off Debts with Bankruptcy
- Smart Timing with the Presumptions of Fraud
- Debts Not Written Off in Bankruptcy
- Forgotten Debts
- Bankruptcy Writes Off Vehicle Accident Claims, Unless Intoxicated
- Debts Sold or Assigned to Collection Agencies
- Debts You Don’t List in Your Bankruptcy Case
- Creditor Not Listed But Knows about Your Case
- Answers About Medical Bankruptcy
- Avoid Misuse of Your $1,400 Stimulus
- Bankruptcy Helps Delay Your Home Sale
- Bankruptcy Is a Moral Choice
- Being Honest in Bankruptcy
- Best Use of Your $1,400 Stimulus? Bankruptcy!?
- Concerns About Co-Signed Debts
- Crucial Facts About Co-Signed Debts in Bankruptcy
- Don’t Let a Creditor Get a Judgment Preventing Its Debt from Being Written Off in Bankruptcy
- Don’t People Have a Moral Obligation to Pay Their Debts?
- Get a New Financial Start with this New Year
- Mistakes to Avoid–Don’t Sell or Borrow Against Assets Protected in Bankruptcy
- More Actions to Take When Considering Bankruptcy
- More Bankruptcy Advantages with The Foreclosure Moratorium
- Nondischargeable Co-Signed Debts
- Timing Bankruptcy to Cover New Debts
- Timing Your Bankruptcy
- What Could Complicate Your Otherwise Simple Bankruptcy Case?
- What Is Bankruptcy?
- Your Options Instead of Bankruptcy
- My Wages Have Been Garnished or My Bank Account Has Been Levied. Can I Get the Money Back?
- U. S. Bankruptcy Laws Took Very Long to Get Off the Ground
- The Surprising Benefits: Rejecting Your Vehicle Lease Under Chapter 7
- Another Five Tremendous Tools to Save Your Home Through Chapter 13
- Bankruptcy’s Many Benefits for Your Home
- Chapter 7’s Shortcomings in Saving Your Home, Solved by Chapter 13
- Five Tremendous Tools to Save Your Home Through Chapter 13
- Major Advantages of Chapter 13 for Saving Your Home
- What Makes a Simple Chapter 13 Case
- Saving Your Home Through Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 in Three Scenarios
- Important Estate Planning Terms to Know
- How to Prepare for Bankruptcy
- United States Trustee Program Informational Notice: Emergency Rental Assistance Programs
- Aviso Informativo Del Programa De Fideicomisarios De Estados Unidos: Programas De Asistencia De Emergencia Para El Alquiler
- Estate Planning for Young Adults
- Life After Bankruptcy and Repairing Your Credit
- Estate Planning Checklist: Things to Consider Before You Start
- When Is Filing Bankruptcy a Good Option?
- Dispelling Estate Planning Misconceptions
- Common Myths & Misconceptions About Bankruptcy
- The Importance of Creating a Business Succession Plan
- What NOT to Do Before Filing for Bankruptcy
- Your Options for the Disposition of Your Remains
- Which Chapter of Bankruptcy Should I File?
- Signing a HIPAA Release as Part of Your Estate Plan
- What You Need to Know About Creditor Harassment
- Can I File for Bankruptcy More Than Once?
- The Benefits of a Firearms Trust (NFA Trust)
- Why Estate Planning Is Important
- Estate Planning Attorney vs. Using an Online Template
- FAQs: What Needs to Be Done When Someone Dies
- Second Marriage and Estate Planning
- Important Legal Documents to Have Before Dementia Sets In
- Reviewing and Updating Your Will
- Are Heirs Responsible for Their Loved-One’s Debts?
- How to Create a Trust for Children with Substance Abuse Problems
- Estate Planning and Divorce
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