I love the internet. I truly do. Why? Because it is an endless source of information, both good and bad and it forces you to think about what you are reading. That resource can be utilized to research almost anything. If you going to need to make a major purchase, you can use this resource [...]
June 2009
A recent Idaho bankruptcy court decision, In re Jackson, 2009 WL 562621 (Bky.D.Idaho March 5, 2009), shows how critical it can be to correctly choose, in a chapter 13 plan, whether property of the estate should or should not vest in the debtor upon confirmation of the plan. In this case, the debtors suffered having [...]
This is the sixth in a series of blogs about the Statement of Financial Affairs and the questions it asks. Question 6 of the Statement of Financial Affairs is a two-parter. The first part asks about “Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors,” and the second part asks about receiverships. What is an “Assignment for the [...]
No. A jury in California recently answered that question emphatically, slamming a collection agency being sued under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. In this case, the debt had been paid off already. These days, debts are sold in batches of thousands and tens of thousands. Though software makes it easy to “scrub” or clean [...]
What does your employer really offer to you as an employee? I’m not talking about raises; there won’t be many of those this year. But there are benefits that employers offer to employees that many do not take advantage. For instance, everyone thinks of getting medical insurance. But does your employer offer different kinds of medical insurance? [...]
