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The Surprising Benefits: Keeping Your Vehicle Lease under Chapter 13
You can keep your leased vehicle under Chapter 7 if you're current. If not, or have other reasons to do a Chapter 13 case, that works too.
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Benefits under Chapter 7: Keeping Your Vehicle Lease
If you file a Chapter 7 case and write off your other debts, will you want to keep your vehicle lease? You can if you're current on it now.
The Surprising Benefits: Ending Your Vehicle Lease under Chapter 13
Chapter 7 gets you out of a vehicle lease owing nothing. Chapter 13 is more complicated but can give you pretty much the same good result.
Chapter 7: Rejecting a Vehicle Lease
Rejecting a vehicle lease in a Chapter 7 case simply requires a formal statement that you reject it. The Option of “Rejecting” the Lease When…
Successfully Completing a Chapter 13 Case
A Chapter 13 case lasts a long time, but can have many advantages. Many of those advantages come only if you successfully finish it.
The Criminal Action Exception to the Automatic Stay
The automatic stay immediately stops most collection actions when you file bankruptcy. But it doesn't stop a "criminal action or proceeding."
Giving a Creditor “Adequate Protection”
To be able to keep your property that's collateral or security on a secured debt, you must give that secured creditor "adequate protection."
A Creditor’s Precautionary Motion about the Automatic Stay
A creditor might file a motion to avoid violating the stay, or to get permission to take some action other than collect a debt.
Challenging the Automatic Stay
A creditor might want to pay a claim through your insurance, or finish a lawsuit to establish that you got the debt through fraud.
Chapter 13 Is a Very Useful Tool for Tax Debt.
Here's why you usually don't pay more in a Chapter 13 case to get rid of taxes that you could simply write off in a Chapter 7 case.
Crucial Question: How Quickly Will Bankruptcy Stop a Home Foreclosure?
Bankruptcy will stop foreclosure fast. But there are excellent reasons to get your ducks in a row early.
Gaining Power Over Your Home Mortgage
See these bullet points on dealing with your home lender under Chapter 7 and under Chapter 13.
The Very Personal Decision to File Bankruptcy
To make any important decision wisely, you first need to become well-informed about your options. Then you can weigh those options and make the best choice.
Our Total U.S. Government Debt–Stacked on a Football Field
If you covered every square inch of a standard football field with stacks of crisp $100 bills, how high would those stacks reach to match our national debt?
More Fun Tax Facts–the Wealthiest 400
Found so much interesting about taxes that wouldn't fit into our last blog, so had to give you more. Such as the income and taxes of the wealthiest tax return filers.