How can I file bankruptcy for credit card debt if I have a special needs trust?

There is a California Statute which allows a creditor and hence a bankruptcy trustee to access 25% of a trust with a spendthrift clause but there...

How does durable power of attorney work does it cease on death?

See an estate planning attorney immediately! This is not the time to try do it yourself. You will creat more problems than you know and end up...

What should I do about getting answers from the Trustee?

Attorney Bergman gave good advice, but ti sounds to me that you will need to retain litigation counsel to get a strict accounting of the trust...

Hi I filed chapter 7 6 years ago. Can I file chapter 13 now or do I have to wait until the chapter 7 is over

You can file a chapter 13 now and then convert it to a chapter 7 eight years after your previous chapter 7. Stay away from debt consolidation....

Need help understanding how to preserve a pending lawsuit while filing for bankruptcy.

I must say you confused me too. If you won a judgment, then you should be able to exempt it under Section 704. If you lost the law suit, as you...

How can I leave my Travel Trailer to my partner

You can, either by putting you partner's name on the title as a joint tenant (Not recommended because it is pretty hard to change it later) or see...

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I bought a house a year ago the person who sold me the house is filing for bankruptcy can they come after my house?

You are probably OK as long as you aren't a relative of the Seller or in a business relationship with the seller, making you an insider. The...

Can I sue someone who recently filed bankruptcy? they listed my fiancé on the bankruptcy but didn't put a dollar amount.

You may have a claim for objection to discharge on the basis if fraud, but there zare very strict time limits on filing an objection. Please see a...

Divorce settlement

Probably not. The divorce settlement trumps the bankruptcy plan, but this is a very complex intersection of bankruptcy and divorce law. You need...

How much should it cost to hire a lawyer to write up an adversarial complaint for me as a creditor in response to a chapter 7

You need a bankruptcy lawyer who specializes in litigation. Adversarial complaints are "big boy" litigation in Federal Court and most litigators...