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How to Get Your Bankruptcy Started

If you are considering bankruptcy, follow a few steps to be as prepared as possible. You need to get a credit counseling certificate, and then find a ...

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Eliminating a Second Mortgage

Many clients that have come to us over the years have been burdened by their monthly mortgage payments.  They simply do not have the income to make b...

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Does a Bankruptcy Claim Affect Military Enlistment?

    Americans idolize the brave men and women who serve in the United States military because they exhibit great bravery. But unfortunately, s...

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Will Everyone Find Out if I File for Bankruptcy?

When filing for bankruptcy or even contemplating bankruptcy, people are often concerned about the social stigma of others finding out.  As a g...

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How Do I Protect a Co-Signer? Will Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Protect My Co-Signer?

Of course, many people have co-signers on a car, truck, ATV, etc. When faced with a period of economic hardship, many will not even consider bankruptc...

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Tax Refunds and Filing for Bankruptcy

Worrying about what will happen to your tax refund is a valid concern for people who are in bankruptcy or who are contemplating bankruptcy.  Th...

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Experience Matters: Choosing a Bankruptcy Attorney

You wouldn't let an inexperienced physician operate on you. Don't risk your financial health to an inexperienced attorney, or to one who will cut ...

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When You Can’t Keep Rental Property Under ANY Bankruptcy

If you are considering bankruptcy because of problems with your financial situation, you may have concerns about whether or not you will be able to ...

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When Should I File Bankruptcy?

Filing bankruptcy isn't an easy choice for people struggling financially, specially if you're not use to it. We have many clients coming to us these...

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Bankruptcy and Tax Liens

Tax liens are claims to tax debt prior to a debtor’s filed petition for bankruptcy. The two most common forms of bankruptcy, Chapter 7 and Chapter...

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What is Adequate Protection in Bankruptcy?

Chapter 13 allows debtors to repay debt in a three or five year repayment plan...  

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Bankruptcy Discharge and Debt

Bankruptcy discharge is a court order in a bankruptcy preceding that marks the conclusion of that proceeding and forgives the remaining debts that ca...

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Finding the Right Bankruptcy Lawyer

If you are having financial troubles and worried about your ability to pay your bills going forward it might be advantageous of you to seek the aid ...

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Erasing Past Debt Judgments

Bankruptcy is a legal procedure for dealing with the debt problems of individuals and businesses and discharges financial obligations. Majority of c...

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Guidelines for FHA Bankruptcy

FHA Loans are government insured mortgages that are a lot less risky to lenders then regular loans for a homeowner. In this article we provide FHA Hom...

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Divorce and Bankruptcy? Bankruptcy First

Sadly, the agony of divorce, especially ones caused by financial distress, can be compounded by the necessity of bankruptcy. Debts that were difficu...

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Purchasing a Car Before Filing Bankruptcy

When someone is about to start the process of chapter 7 bankruptcy, they must be careful if they are also thinking about purchasing a new car. Althoug...

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What is Lien Stripping?

  Lien stripping means reducing a secured claim to the value of the underlying collateral. The lien is bifurcated into secured and unsecured. Th...

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Why Chapter 7 is More Desireable than Chapter 13

Anyone thinking about filing for bankruptcy has probably heard about chapter 7 and chapter 13. The bankruptcy code is divided into different chapter...

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Bankruptcy vs. Debt Settlement

  When weighing your options for handling out-of-control debt, you might consider bankruptcy, or debt settlement, or simply ignoring the collector...

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Thinking of Filing Bankruptcy? Get Advice

When your debts begin to get overwhelming, it is quite natural to cringe at the thought of bankruptcy.  None of us were raised to think bankruptcy...

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Who Can File for Bankruptcy Protection

In theory, any debtor is eligible to petition for bankruptcy.  However, in practice and under bankruptcy laws, not all individuals actually qualify...

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Discharge Student Loans through Bankruptcy

In these tough economic times, many college graduates have found themselves burdened with loans that they cannot afford to pay.  As a result, many pe...

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Benefits of Chapter 13 Over Chapter 7

Although Chapter 7 is by far the most popular option for filing bankruptcy, in that it completely eliminates all of your dischargeable debt, filing ...

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The Reality of Personal Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy. It's a word that conjures up ideas of deadbeats, not paying their bills, ignoring their responsibilities and looking for a way to avoid ...

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