Prevent Future Judgment Liens
Bankruptcy can prevent future judgment liens. It usually stops a lawsuit from turning into a judgment, and then a judgment lien on 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.
More Bankruptcy Benefits for Your Home
Other bankruptcy benefits for your home include protection against other liens—from judgments, income taxes, and homeowner associations.
Secured Debts Treated Like Unsecured Debts in Chapter 7
A secured debt can be handled like an unsecured debt if you surrender the collateral, "avoid" a judgment lien, or just keep the collateral.
Prevent a Creditor with an Unsecured Debt from Turning it into a Secured Debt
Because of Chapter 13's much more powerful automatic stay, its ability to prevent judgment liens and tax liens is extremely valuable.
Giving More Thanks for Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy”
Here are more features of Chapter 7 worth knowing and taking advantage of.
Stopping a Home Foreclosure with a Bankruptcy, Temporarily or Permanently
Filing bankruptcy can buy you a little time or a lot of time, enough time either to transition to a new home or to save your home.
Just Been Sued by a Creditor? How Bankruptcy Helps Right Away
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.
Power to Protect Your Home Against Your Mortgage Lender and Lienholders
If you want to hold onto your home, Chapter 13 gives you many extraordinary advantages.
A Combination of Chapter 13 Tools for Saving Your Home, Illustrated
It's often the combination of tools that come with Chapter 13 that allows you to keep your home. Because Chapter 7 has only some of these tools, sometimes it can't do nearly as much for your home as Chapter 13 can.
The Power of Chapter 13 to Save Your Home, Brought to Life
A mere list of the many ways that Chapter 13 can help save a home can start sounding dry. So here's a powerful example that shows off some of its extraordinary advantages.
Debts with Collateral–THE Fixation of Many Bankruptcies
Your vehicle loan, home mortgage, account at the appliance or electronics store, and maybe a debt that's resulted in a judgment lien--these debts with collateral are the ones that grab the most attention during a bankruptcy case. And that includes the attention of the creditors, very interested in "their" collateral.
