IRS Wage Garnishment: Laws & Bankruptcy Options
Bankruptcy typically cannot relieve tax debts, although some people may benefit by getting all their other debts removed. If your wages are being ...
Reaffirmation Agreements in a California Bankruptcy Case
When a California debtor files bankruptcy, and wants to keep a debt, s/he must continue to pay off the amount after filing bankruptcy, and reaffir...
Intellectual Property Contracts and Bankruptcy
Intellectual property interfaces with bankruptcy when a licensor has a debtor licensee who intends to assign the licensed rights to the licensor's com...
How to Protect Your Co-Signers in Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is one of the most powerful tools available to you if you've gotten in over your head with debts, but that power doesn't always extend ...
When Taxes Can Be Discharged in Bankruptcy
Usually income taxes aren’t dischargeable in bankruptcy. Taxes must be paid no matter whether a person goes into bankruptcy, unless the tax return...
Can Taxes Be Discharged in Bankruptcy?
With tax season just winding up, I thought it would be a good idea to briefly discuss a question I get time and time again from our bankruptcy clients...
When Your Bankruptcy Lawyer Can Sue Your Creditors
If an individual has filed for bankruptcy, his debt collectors are forbidden from engaging in certain activities. The Fair Debt Collection Prac...
Types of Consumer Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy can be a way out of overwhelming debt. A person can file for bankruptcy if they meet the requirements set forth under the United States...
Bankruptcy Law: Various Chapters
Bankruptcy law is a federal law, as opposed to state law. A federal law is considered supreme, and preempts state law, unless state law is stricte...
How Credit Bureaus Fuel the Poverty Industry, Enrich Banks and Keep You Poor
If you are reading this you probably in debt. You may sense that you have been victimized somewhere along the way but are'nt really sure how or by...
Should I Get Money Out of a 401(k) to Pay Off Some Debt?
I don't recommend taking out money from your 401k to pay off some debt. I am a bankruptcy attorney and I have had clients who have done so and t...
Were Financial Bailouts Legal?
On December 7, 2010, The Wall Street Journal asked in “Debating the Legality of the Bailout” whether the financial bailouts of 2008 legal. Since t...
Associated Community Bancorp, Inc. v. The Travelers Companies, Inc.
In Associated Community Bancorp, Inc. v. The Travelers Companies, Inc., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34799 (D. Conn. Apr.
What Banks Don’t Want You to Know
It used to be quite simple. A dime earned once bought a carton of milk. The store owner shared that dime with the shipper, the packager and the fa...
Stopping Creditor Abuse
Doan Law Firm is one of only a few firms in California aggressively pursuing violators of consumer protection laws.
Overview of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
You may have heard the horror stories of people so far in debt that they’re constantly being harassed by debt collectors. Phone calls, piles o...
How Is a HELOC Treated in Bankruptcy?
How a home equity line of credit (HELOC) is treated in bankruptcy depends on what type of bankruptcy you file -- Chapter 7 or Chapter 13.
Military Star Card Debt: Bankruptcy Solutions for Retired Military
The Military Star card is an unsecured credit card issued to active duty and retired members of the armed forces and Department of Defense employees...
What is a Bankruptcy Proof of Claim?
A proof of claim sets forth the nature and amount of the debt and should have attached to it the contract or other agreement evidencing the debt.&nb...
What Happens when Creditors are Notified of Your Bankruptcy?
In bankruptcy notice to creditors is sent out from the bankruptcy court to each of the creditors you have listed within your bankruptcy documentatio...
Oklahoma Wage Garnishment Laws: Knowing When to File Bankruptcy
Oklahoma law specifically authorizes Post-judgment wage attachment or garnishment. In order to garnish wages, creditors must first file a lawsuit and ...
Loan Modification Or Bankruptcy? Either Or Both And In What Order?
Contact a bankruptcy lawyer to counsel you. Ask him about “procedures” the bankruptcy court has involving your simultaneous need for both a loan...
Foreclosure and Bankruptcy: Important Information about Your Property and Your Money
You are likely reading this article because you have fallen behind on your mortgage payments and either you have been threatened with foreclosure, o...
What is Creditor Harassment after Declaring Bankruptcy?
What is creditor harassment after declaring bankruptcy? It is an activity that should never have been happening to a debtor in the first place and c...
Can Unpaid Debt Land You in Jail?
While Debtors' prisons disappeared in the United States in the 1800's, present day elements of that era are being reported in certain states across ...
Effect of Bankruptcy on a Deficiency Judgement
Bankruptcy can help you in the event of a deficiency judgement against you, for any amounts still remaining on a mortgage after your home was forecl...
Discharging a Deficiency Judgement in Bankruptcy
A deficiency judgment is a court directive against a debtor if the foreclosure sale did not generate adequate funds to fully discharge the mortgage ...
Filing Bankruptcy with an Upside Down Mortgage: Will I Keep My House?
When the current market value of your home is less than the outstanding mortgage, you mortgage is said to be an upside down mortgage. You can cram dow...
Can Bankruptcy Remove a Statutory Lien?
In simple terms, lien is a legal claim over a property of a person. There are three types of liens - consensual, statutory and judicial. Each type o...
Celebrities File for Bankruptcy Too
If you are hesitant about considering Bankruptcy as an alternative to solving your Financial Difficulties, consider that even people who make millio...
Alimony
All family support obligations, including child support and spousal support (alimony) are generally non-dischargeable in a bankruptcy case. However,...
Advantages of Bankruptcy Over Debt Settlement
Sometimes debt becomes overwhelming for individual consumers and businesses. When the debt is no longer payable and is significantly impacting you...
Does Credit Card Debt Settlement Work?
Recently, the mortgage crisis and resulting economic recession has driven many Americans to rely heavily on credit cards sustain them during this di...
Bankruptcy and Your Credit Score
Thousands of homeowners continue to look to the government for loan modification programs that claim to help them save their home. But, what impac...
Why Americans are Filing for Bankruptcy
After the sub-prime mortgage debacle and resulting housing market tumble, it's no wonder so many Americans are facing foreclosure and filing for bankr...
What Is A Reaffirmation Agreement?
A Reaffirmation Agreement is a contract that was presented by one of your creditors that you and your attorney sign after your bankruptcy petition has...
Bills to Pay When Considering Bankruptcy
People struggling financially need to put their money where it will help them the most. People that begin to fall behind financially often times don...
Effect of Bankruptcy on Lawsuit Judgments
Filing for bankruptcy may be able to stop a lawsuit by preventing the “plaintiff” or party suing you from ever getting a judgment against you. ...
Removal of Deficiency Judgment by Bankruptcy
A deficiency judgment is a lien against a debtor, defendant, or borrower whose foreclosure sale did not produce sufficient funds to pay the mortgage...
Cram Down
Some people think that a homeowner's primary mortgage can be reduced in bankruptcy. This is a myth. The reality is that with one rare exception, b...
Does Bankruptcy Stop Wage Garnishment?
Yes. Both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy filings will stop garnishments, unless the garnishment is related to child support obligations.
Repossessions
Read on to learn how repossessions work, how to get your car back, and what you can do to avoid them.
10 Signs You're in Too Much Debt
It is easy to ignore that we may be falling into debt. Especially if you are unemployed right now or your wages have been cut. Reaching for a credit...
Debt and Statute of Limitations
The longest length of time for a statute of limitations for a credit card company to collect debt owed to them is a total of 15 years.
Wage and Bank Levies
If you owe a tax debt, you can have a lien placed against your property. If you don't pay the debt or make arrangements to pay it, then a levy is ca...
