(This cartoon is posted on BLN with the express permission of the creators of BAPCPA Man.) When I think of Steven Horowitz and Gideon Kendall, I can’t help but think of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. What a perfect combination. Horowitz, a New York City bankruptcy lawyer, and Kendall, a professional illustrator and fellow New [...]
November 2009
Any reader of the Massachusetts Homestead Act must conclude that it only protects homes from contracts incurred after the declaration is recorded. This is not true in the bankruptcy context. This reading was first confirmed by the Van Rye Massachusetts bankruptcy court decision in 1995. A different bankruptcy judge then ruled otherwise in the 1996 [...]
You’ve received a letter threatening foreclosure, but you don’t have to move immediately. Thank Heavens !! Here’s my Massachusetts Foreclosure Timeline, and here’ s my Post-Foreclosure Eviction Timeline. Now that your questions are answered, you also need to explore whether you have a defense to your expected foreclosure. Many times, the party doing the foreclosure [...]
Bankruptcy Law Network member and author, Craig Andresen of Bloomington, Minnesota, has been named Member of the Month for October 2009 by the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. He is the tenth member of Bankruptcy Law Network to be recognized as member of the month for service to NACBA and the field of consumer [...]
I was driving back from Dixon, Missouri the other day. While enjoying the changing leaves I used the opportunity to think about some of the silly debt that people incur. One of the silliest debts that one can incur are traffic tickets related to incidents that are totally in your control. This particular picture was [...]
