A Recent Move Will Prevent You from Using Your Current State's Bankruptcy Exemptions
Nov 09, 2011
As a California-based bankruptcy attorney, my clients have it pretty good when it comes to property they are allowed to exempt in the bankruptcy process. For one thing, under one set of exemptions they...
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Digging Deeper into "Willful and Malicious" Injuries in Bankruptcy
Nov 09, 2011
One of the major reasons debtors seek bankruptcy protection is to shed themselves of responsibility for judicial judgments or allegations. Recognizing this, Congress decades ago made it difficult for s...
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Evictions and Bankruptcy: A Primer
Oct 24, 2011
this guide answers the following question: how does bankruptcy affect evictions? Some renters are not going to like the answer.Eviction Judgment Ordered by a State CourtThe Bankruptcy Code was reformed...
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The Chapter 13 Discharge
Oct 20, 2011
several categories of debts are not dischargable in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. All of the debts -- all 19 categories of them -- that cannot be discharged in a Chapter 7 are listed under Title 11 of the Un...
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Lawsuits and Chapter 7: A Primer
Oct 11, 2011
What happens to lawsuits when the debtor is either the plaintiff or the defendant? Debtor as the Defendant One of the reasons people file for bankruptcy is because they are involved in expensive civi...
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Judgments Against the Debtor in Chapter 7: A Primer
Oct 10, 2011
One of the more common reasons people seek to file for bankruptcy is because they were sued and lost; and now they owe thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to the plaintiff. What happens to these ...
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Valuation of Assets in Bankruptcy: A Primer
Oct 08, 2011
Perhaps the most confusing part of any bankruptcy petition -- especially if you are filing pro se -- are Schedules A and B, where you declare your assets and their values. Schedule B, where you declare...
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Bonuses and Accounts Receivable in Chapter 7: A Primer
Sep 29, 2011
How do you account for income you are due in the future but have not yet received in a bankruptcy petition? This is a confusing and vague area of law, made more vague by the changes to the Bankruptcy C...
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Discharging Recently-Acquired Debt: A Primer
Sep 20, 2011
As a bankruptcy lawyer, many people approach me
after spending the last few weeks or months of their lives completely
overwhelmed by debt. In fact, sometimes they are "paying" for
day-to-day ex...
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Lien-Stripping in Chapter 13: A Primer
Sep 19, 2011
As a result of the 2007-08
housing crash, houses individuals and families financed to
purchase during the boom-boom years of the mid 2000s or took out second
mortgages on are no longer even worth ...
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