As a bankruptcy lawyer, I have often advised clients not to bother with a short sale if they’re filing bankruptcy. They are such a headache, and what is the point anyway? The bankruptcy discharge will wipe out the debtor’s obligation on the house. However, Jacksonville real estate lawyer David J. Heekin, Esquire sat down with [...]
Chip Parker, Jacksonville Bankruptcy Attorney
Florida’s Middle District is second only to the district including Los Angeles in bankruptcy filings. One bankruptcy is filed for every 100 residents of the Florida district that includes Jacksonville, Fort Myers, Orlando and Tampa. This same geographic area has a large and growing hispanic population, and the Clerk of Court is focussed on meeting [...]
The Jacksonville bankruptcy bar has lost an honorable advocate for creditor rights. Sadly, Raymond Magley, Esquire of Smith, Hulsey & Busey passed away on Friday, December 10th after fighting brain cancer since being diagnosed this past January. He was 50 years old. When things heat up in Jacksonville bankruptcy court, trustees here often turned to [...]
Recently, Jonathan Ginsberg explained that second mortgage holders often pursue their unsecured claim after the first mortgage takes the house in foreclosure. In the wake of the largest meltdown of real estate in history, many homeowners are sitting on second mortgage time bombs. Once the first mortgage company takes the property, the potential exposure to [...]
Judges are put in a position to shape their communities for decades, and Florida’s Circuit Civil Judges are no different. They decide extremely critical issues facing Floridians ranging from real estate development to the death penalty. They create new families through adoption and end broken families through divorce. At some point in a judge’s career, [...]
The average consumer debt collector employee places 200 collection calls per day or 50,000 calls per year! How do they make so many calls? Most use a technology known as autodialing, even though the use of an autodialer by a collector often violates the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The penalty for violating the TCPA [...]
