Protecting Excess Home Equity in Chapter 13
Chapter 13 can be an advantageous way to protect excess home equity that is above your homestead exemption.
Protecting Potential Equity in Your Home through Chapter 7
Protecting current home equity is a sensible focus when considering bankruptcy. Protecting potential equity can be critical.
Protecting Your Home Equity through Chapter 7
You can protect the equity in your home if the amount of equity is no more than the homestead exemption applicable to residents of your state.
More Bankruptcy Benefits for Your Home
Other bankruptcy benefits for your home include protection against other liens—from judgments, income taxes, and homeowner associations.
Bankruptcy’s Many Benefits for Your Home
Bankruptcy can save and protect your home in many different ways. One of these may be just what you need. Or you may use them in combination.
Cramdown on Furniture and Other Personal Property Debts
Cramdown lowers vehicle loan payments and the total paid on the loan. But you can also get similar benefits on other personal property debts.
How a cramdown saves money
Here's an example of vehicle loan cramdown that shows how you can reduce your vehicle payments and be free and clear after paying less.
Are you Behind on Your Auto Payments
Vehicle loan cramdown doesn't just likely reduce your vehicle payments and the total you pay. You'd also not have to catch up on late payments.
Time requirements for a Cramdown on Vehicle Loan
The time requirements for a cramdown on a vehicle loan in Chapter 13 requires that your loan is at least two and a half years old. But there are exceptions to this.
Qualifying for a Cramdown
To qualify for a Chapter 13 vehicle loan cramdown, mostly your loan must be at least two and a half years old. There are exceptions to this.
Decrease your Auto Loan
If you can’t afford to pay your vehicle payments even after writing off your other debts under Chapter 7, consider decreasing your auto loan through a Chapter 13 cramdown.
Keep Your Vehicle without Reaffirmation
Can you keep your vehicle without reaffirming its loan? Can you make the payments without reaffirming? What if you can't afford the payments?
Reaffirming your Vehicle Loan
If you want to keep your vehicle and still pay on its loan, file a Chapter 7 case to write off other debts and reaffirm the vehicle loan.
Forgotten Debts
What do you need to do, what efforts is worth taking, if there are debts you don't have any records on or you've forgotten about?
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?
