Help Buy Time To Deal With Your Home Through Bankruptcy
Chapter 7 can help buy time to deal with some creditors or negotiate with others, which may help you keep your home.
Bankruptcy Can Remove a Judgment Lien
Bankruptcy can, in the right circumstances, remove a judgment lien from the title to your home. Here are the conditions for pulling this off.
Bankruptcy Can Help You When Faced With A Property Tax Foreclosure
Bankruptcy can help if you are facing a property tax foreclosure — Chapter 7 by getting rid of other debts, Chapter 13 by buying you lots more time.
Protecting Excess Home Equity in Chapter 13
Chapter 13 can be an advantageous way to protect excess home equity that is above your homestead exemption.
Protecting Potential Equity in Your Home through Chapter 7
Protecting current home equity is a sensible focus when considering bankruptcy. Protecting potential equity can be critical.
Chapter 7 Prevents Judgment Liens on Your Home
Filing a Chapter 7 case stops foreclosure of your home temporarily, helping you gather funds for your transition to your next housing.
Chapter 7 Buys Time and Money to Move from a Foreclosing Home
Filing a Chapter 7 case stops foreclosure of your home temporarily, helping you gather funds for your transition to your next housing.
Buy Time for Your Home with Chapter 7
Filing a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case stops a foreclosure and buys some time to either arrange to keep the home or move in a peaceful way.
Debt Secured by Judgment Lien Can Often Be Turned into an Unsecured Debt
A judgment lien turns an unsecured debt into one secured by a lien on your home. Bankruptcy can undo that, and write off the debt.
Protect Equity in Your Home Better with Chapter 13
If your home is exposed to your creditors and to the Chapter 7 trustee because it has too much equity, Chapter 13 can protect that equity.
Protect Equity in Your Home Not Covered by the Homestead Exemption
If your home is at risk because you have more equity than the amount of the homestead exemption, Chapter 7 might still save your home.
Ten Ways to Keep Your Home through Chapter 13
These 10 tools, especially used in combination, can defeat your mortgage debt and other home-based challenges.
Keeping Non-Home Real Estate through Bankruptcy
Whether you can keep other real estate depends first on whether it's "exempt."
Upcoming Increase in Federal Property Exemptions
The federal exemptions are nudging up about 3%. But that only matters if you are allowed to use them, and are higher than your state ones.
More New Bankruptcy Dollar Amounts Effective Soon
Here are the rest of the important changes affecting Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases filed on or after April 1, 2016.