What Can I Do If I’m Behind on My Vehicle Loan
Bankruptcy saves your vehicle from immediate repossession. Whether you choose to file under Chapter 7 or 13 depends in part on how strong of a medicine you need for dealing with the back payments...
Keeping Your Wheels in Bankruptcy
Under Chapter 7, you can pay your vehicle loan mostly by getting rid of all or most of your other debts. Under Chapter 13, you can pay your vehicle loan ahead of most of your other creditors...
Debts You Really Care About, and WANT to Pay
In bankruptcy, are you allowed to favor: 1) creditors with collateral, so that you can keep the collateral; 2) creditors toward whom you have special loyalty; and 3) creditors who have extraordinary leverage against you?...
Debts from a Criminal Conviction Can’t Be Written Off in Bankruptcy, But a Bankruptcy Can Still Help
Three ways bankruptcy can help: 1) write off debts to focus on defense costs, 2) pay only the most important debts and expenses, and 3) reduce chance of related civil liability...
Criminal Fines, Fees and Restitution Are Never Discharged in Bankruptcy, Right?
Obligations you owe related to your conviction of a crime cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. End of story? Usually, but not absolutely...
Student Loans Are a Cash Cow for the Federal Government?
The federal government is making billions of dollars for itself on student loans every year. So why double the interest rate on the loans next year? To boost those profits...
