Can a 2nd mortgage be stripped in a chapter 13 if there was a chapter 7 two years prior?
There are some very important missing information here that may have an impact on the answer. For example, did you receive a discharge in the...
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There are some very important missing information here that may have an impact on the answer. For example, did you receive a discharge in the...
I assume that when you mean "file by myself," you mean file just you and not as a couple. Since your name is on both cars, you may have to decide...
Contracts are executory if performance remains due on both sides. Since you pay a monthly fee in return for the access to a product or service of...
I had a client with exactly this issue. In that case, the joint account was not disclosed to me (and hence, not disclosed to the trustee and the...
According to our local U.S. Trustee (Northern Ohio), student loan payments are NONmandatory and thus should not be included in either Schedule J or...
The resolution to your problem may lie not in declaring bankruptcy, but in short selling to the relatives or a workout with the lender. Of course,...
I'm not exactly clear on what you mean in your first sentence. But in general to discharge your income tax (or, in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy, to pay...
Yesterday, a trustee in our jurisdiction referred to the taking of a tax refund, to which the trustee is entitled, as "theft." Many consider this...
My understanding is that escrow funds may only be used for the purpose for which the account was set up.
Judge Harris, one of the three bankruptcy judges in Cleveland, stated recently in open court to a pro se filer that the failure rate for Chapter 13...