Mistakes to Avoid–Selling Your Home to Pay off Your Ex-Spouse
Before deciding that you have to sell your home to pay your ex-spouse, find out your legal options. You may be pleasantly surprised.
Mistakes to Avoid–Selling Your Home to Prevent Its Foreclosure
Stopping a foreclosure through Chapter 7 or 13 while addressing your whole financial picture can be much better than hurrying a home sale.
Mistakes to Avoid–Prevent Judgment Liens against Your Home
Don't let a creditor get a judgment against you. File a bankruptcy case before that can happen.
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: What’s the Required “Debtor Education”?
"Credit counseling" has to be done shortly before filing bankruptcy, "debtor education" shortly after. The latter may even be worthwhile.
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: Don’t Lose the Crucial “Automatic Stay” through Multiple Bankruptcy Filings
A law designed to stop the "serial filing" of bankruptcy cases could take away from you one of your most important weapons against creditors.
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: Don’t Lose the Crucial “Automatic Stay” through Multiple Bankruptcy Filings
A law designed to stop the "serial filing" of bankruptcy cases could take away from you one of your most important weapons against creditors.
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: Does Filing a Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy” Stop a Home Foreclosure or is a Chapter 13 Needed?
A Chapter 7 case can stop a foreclosure just as well as a usually more complicated Chapter 13 one, but then what?
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: How Can Bankruptcy Write Off My Debts?
If I legally owe debts, and maybe even have a court judgment saying I do, how can bankruptcy wipe away those debts and erase that judgment?
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: How to Protect Your Co-Signer
The "co-debtor stay" gives you an extraordinary way to take care of debts that someone co-signed for you.
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: How Filing a Chapter 7 or 13 Case Stops Creditors’ Actions against You
Federal bankruptcy laws override state collection laws, protecting you and your assets from debt collection.
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: Curing Child and Spousal Support Arrearage
Unlike Chapter 7 "straight bankruptcy," Chapter 13 can legally prevent your ex-spouse/support enforcement from chasing you and your assets.
Tax Day 2015: The 10 Most Important Ways Bankruptcy Helps Deal with Your Tax Debt
If you owe back taxes, bankruptcy can help, in many unexpected and powerful ways.
How Bankruptcy Handles . . . Income Taxes that Your Ex-Spouse Was Required to Pay but Has Now Written Off in Bankruptcy
What can you do if your ex-spouse is hiding from both you and the tax authorities behind a Chapter 7 bankruptcy?
How Bankruptcy Handles . . . Withholding Taxes Owed on Behalf of an Employee
Employee withholding taxes can't be written off in bankruptcy. But still, either Chapter 7 or 13 may provide your best solution.
How Bankruptcy Handles . . . a Recorded Income Tax Lien that Is Fully Secured by Your Assets
A tax lien may attach to assets worth more than the amount of the underlying tax. That could make either a small or a huge difference.