Crucial Question: Why Even Consider a Chapter 13 Case When Chapter 7 Looks Good Enough?
5 more very good reasons Chapter 13 is worth a close look, even if it takes much longer, and looks more expensive at first.
The Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy: Avoid Paying Your Ex-Spouse Most of Your Property Settlement Debts
Chapter 13's "super discharge" means that you can write off a portion of any non-support debts included in your divorce decree.
The Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy: Wage Garnishment after Filing Bankruptcy
Almost all paycheck garnishment is illegal from the moment your bankruptcy case is filed. Here's what to do in the rare event it happens.
The Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy: Recovering Money After It’s Garnished
If you lost money through garnishment during the 90 days BEFORE filing bankruptcy, that money may be returned to you or a favored creditor.
The Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy: Preventing Resumed Garnishments
Most garnishments are stopped immediately if you file bankruptcy, but some may be able to continue later. Here's how to prevent that.
The Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy: Make Your Creditor Pay Back Money Taken from You
Filing bankruptcy doesn't just stop creditors' present and future collection efforts against you. It might recoup money you've already lost.
Reasons to File a Second Bankruptcy Even If Too Early to Get a Discharge of Your Debts
You can file a new bankruptcy immediately after finishing another one, but why would you?
A Chapter 7 Can . . . Help You Walk Away from Your Business by Letting Your Trustee Sell Your Last Business Assets to Pay Your Special Debts
Give the bankruptcy trustee the headache of dealing with your final business assets
Even Simple Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Can Do Much More Than Just Wipe Out Your Debts–Such As?
Chapter 7 bankruptcy can often also wipe judgment liens off the title to your home.
Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Helps You with Special Debts When Chapter 7 Can’t
Chapter 13 protects you while you catch up on or pay off very important debts.
Bankruptcy Can Do So Much More Than Just Wipe Out Your Debts–But That’s Not A Bad Start
Chapter 7 gives you a fresh financial start by legally erasing your debts. That's enough if your debts are simple ones.
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?
The Kinds of Debts Better Handled through Chapter 13
Simplistic but often true: Chapter 7 deals better with simpler debts, while Chapter 13 with more complicated debts. What ARE more complicated debts?
Help! I Need to File Bankruptcy But Already Did One a Few Years Ago
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.
Help! Support Enforcement Just Garnished My Paycheck, and is Threatening to Do Worse
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.