Crucial Question: Can Bankruptcy Protect Me from My Co-Signer?
If you and another person are jointly obligated on a debt, and you canât pay the debt, you need to prevent the other person from pursuing you.
Crucial Question: How Can I Protect a Co-Signer Better in a Chapter 13 “Adjustment of Debts” Case?
The âco-debtorâ stay is a remarkable tool for protecting your co-signer from having to pay your debt.
Crucial Question: Can Bankruptcy Stop My Vehicle from Being Repossessed Even If I Am Surrendering It?
Bankruptcy will stop a repossession very fast. Then a month or so later you surrender the vehicle, but gain some key advantages.
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.
20 Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy
In so many often surprising ways, bankruptcy can fix your earlier mistakes, undo harms caused by creditors, and clear a better path forward.
The Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy: Getting Back Your Just-Repossessed Vehicle
Whether you can get your vehicle back depends on how long ago it was repossessed and whether you file under Chapter 7 or Chapter 13.
The Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy: The “Automatic Stay”
Don't take for granted how quickly and thoroughly filing bankruptcy protects you, your money, and everything else you own.
Tax Season: More Protection While Dealing with Your Income Tax Debts through Chapter 13
It's much safer than under Chapter 7 because the protection lasts for years instead of just a few months, and is more flexible.
Tax Season: More Protection While Dealing with Your Income Tax Debts through Chapter 13
It's much safer than under Chapter 7 because the protection lasts for years instead of just a few months, and is more flexible.
Tax Season: The IRS is Only a Slightly Special Creditor As Far As You Getting Immediate Bankruptcy Protection
You are protected from the very powerful collection capabilities of the IRS during bankruptcy virtually as if it were just any other creditor.
Use Ch. 7 or Ch. 13 to Resolve Your Tax Debts
If you had struggled to keep a business open, but have decided to throw in the towel, there's a good chance you owe taxes. Here's how to deal with them.
The “Automatic Stay” Applied to the IRS
The IRS is just another creditor that you can get immediate protection from by filing bankruptcy. With some exceptions.
Chapter 13 for All the Advantages it Gives You For Completely Resolving Your Income Tax Debts
If you can't discharge your income tax debt through Chapter 7, or make workable payment arrangements on your remaining tax debt, then Chapter 13 can be a good solution
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Helps You with Your Income Tax Debt Even If It Doesn’t Write Off One Red Cent
Don't assume that just because your income taxes are too new to be written off that 1) bankruptcy can't help, or 2) only Chapter 13 can help.
Be Very Careful About Any Recently Filed and Dismissed Bankruptcy Case
How to avoid getting tripped up in a trap set by Congress supposedly to prevent bankruptcy abuse.