Growing case law suggests that debtors should hope the bankruptcy court does not approve their car reaffirmation agreement. Huh?, you say. If you’ve agreed to reaffirm, and essentially waive the bankruptcy discharge as to the car loan in order to keep the car, why would you want the court to find that the car loan [...]
October 2010
We have lots of divorces and too much debt in America today. As an attorney who has done lots of domestic law work, I recall the time when the court divided the property between the husband and wife, including the value in their house. Well, those days are gone, as the song says. One of [...]
Bankruptcy is not a pizza! You can not just walk into an attorney and say, “Hey I want a Chapter 7 with extra cheese” and call it a day. Bankruptcy is a very specialized area of the law and if you don’t hire the right attorney or know what you are doing if you are [...]
Failing to return phone calls from a bankruptcy client, failing to help the client confirm her chapter 13 plan, and other mistakes may prove costly to an Ohio lawyer, whose client wrote a letter of complaint to the bankruptcy court, sparking an investigation into the lawyer’s conduct in that and other bankruptcy cases. The court also ordered the U.S. [...]
If I Was Overpaid Unemployment Benefits And The State Wants Me To Pay It Back! Will Bankruptcy Help?
I was watching the news recently and it caught my attention that the State of North Carolina says that it had paid lots of people more than it should have in unemployment benefits. Because of this, the State will seek to recover the amount that it claims it overpaid. See article here. If you were receiving unemployment and the State says you were [...]
Say the words “Chapter 11″ to most consumer bankruptcy attorneys, and after an initial look of fear in their eyes, you will quickly receive the name of one of the few attorneys in your state that actually handles individual and small business Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. Why is it so hard to find a lawyer [...]
