If you need bankruptcy protection but already filed a bankruptcy case within the last few years, you may still be able to file a new one now.
If you and someone else jointly owe a debt, bankruptcy can protect you against the debt and against your co-signer. Or if you want, bankruptcy can protect your co-signer.
If you owe income taxes, and are at the point that the IRS is about to seize your assets, you need to consider bankruptcy. It can help in surprising ways.
If you're behind on child or spousal support, the support enforcement agency can be extremely aggressive. Chapter 7 doesn't help much. Chapter 13 CAN.
Once garnished, that portion of your wages or salary is forever gone. With one exception.
Bankruptcy quashes a garnishment, but only if it's filed in time.
Getting sued by a creditor is a wake-up call to consider filing bankruptcy. If it's the right thing to do, there are advantages to filing before your deadline to respond to the lawsuit.
If Chapter 7 strengthens your hand against your secured creditors, Chapter 13 turns you into Superman. It starts with a much more robust "automatic stay."
Your secured creditors are often the ones you most care about, because the creditor can take your collateral. Chapter 7 strengthens your hand, improving your options.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't talk about it, so how does filing bankruptcy give you the power to stop a foreclosure?
Three more practical ways that bankruptcy works to let you take control of your debts, even those that can't be written off.
Don't disregard bankruptcy as an option just because it does not write off the debt which is your immediate headache. There's likely some good medicine for that headache after all.
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.
You've heard that no debt in bankruptcy is more untouchable than child support and spousal support. Is that true? Can Chapter 7 or 13 ever help?
Do you have a small business in your own name that would be successful if it only got a break from its debts? A Chapter 13 case would likely greatly reduce both your business and personal monthly debt service while you continued to run your business.