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Home Sweet Home in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
Bankruptcy protects your home. Both Chapter 7 and 13 do so, but which is better for you?
Bankruptcy protects your home. Both Chapter 7 and 13 do so, but which is better for you?
Simplistic but often true: Chapter 7 deals better with simpler debts, while Chapter 13 with more complicated debts. What ARE more complicated debts?
Chapter 7 deals with some debts better than does Chapter 13. But Chapter 13 deals with some other debts better than Chapter 7. So what kind of debts do you have?
In Chapter 13 the trustee is a gate-keeper, overseer, and payment distributor. Quite different than in Chapter 7.
In bankruptcy you hear a lot about "the trustee." What does this person do, in a "straight" Chapter 7 case, and in an "adjustment of debts" Chapter 13 one?
Chapter 7 often protects you from creditors well enough. But if need be, Chapter 13 protects you longer.
If your business has failed or is about to, it does NOT likely need a bankruptcy. But YOU personally might.
Question #1 for cleaning up financially after a failed business: can the business file a bankruptcy without you? Question #2: should it?
It sure helps in understanding the two main bankruptcy options if you know the cast of characters in each one.
In deciding between Chapter 7 and 13, get this question out of the way right away: "Can I keep everything I own if I file a Chapter 7 case?"
Chapter 13 costs much more than Chapter 7, takes about 10 times as long, so you do a Chapter 7 if possible, right?
The most respected early commentator on the Constitution fills in some historical gaps about bankruptcy and leads it in a better direction.
Too much debt can disqualify you from filing under Chapter 13.
The amount of your income may not disqualify you from Chapter 7.
If you don't qualify for either Chapter 7 or 13, do you have to do a very expensive Chapter 11 reorganization? Or could you still qualify after all?