Following the 341 hearing in your Chapter 13 case, there is a strong likelihood that you will receive an “objection to confirmation” from your Chapter 13 trustee.  A confirmation objection does not mean that your case has been dismissed or that it will be dismissed.  Instead, confirmation objections set out issues with your case identified [...]

A census report last week noted that household income rose slightly last year, and the poverty rate decreased slightly. Good news, right? Not in context. A New York Times editorial explains:
… [A] deeper look at the belated improvement in these numbers — more than five years after the end of the last recession — underscores [...]

Often when you file bankruptcy, you will owe money on your car.  And you want to keep it.  There are several ways to do this even in a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy.
It used to be, before the new bankruptcy law went into affect in October 2005, you could simply continue making the payments on the car [...]

My recent post on credit card lending appears in Tushar Mathur’s first ever Carnival of Everything Finance. The Carnival has a huge collection of useful links and stories about finance and Tushar’s blog, Everything Finance is packed with useful money-saving personal finance stories. So please take a moment to explore this excellent resource.
If [...]