The Social Security Administration is a mess. Currently, SSA is in the midst of an overhaul in which they are attempting to go “paperless.” Unfortunately, they are understaffed with many of the remaining employees overworked and poorly trained, resulting in an agency that routinely loses files, does not process information properly and does not have [...]
Discharge of Debt
Bankruptcy is not for liars, cheats and crooks. Debt discharge is reserved for honest, but unfortunate, debtors who need a fresh start in life. If you do not want to come clean and make a full and honest disclosure of all your financial affairs, bankruptcy is not for you. Only people who tell all [...]
So, you’re in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy and you want to know whether you should reaffirm your car loan. A reaffirmation agreement basically takes a secured loan, like a car loan, outside the effect of your bankruptcy discharge. As to that one debt, it’s like you never filed bankruptcy. You filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in [...]
The U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, recently ruled that an Ohio doctor could discharge her federal income taxes in chapter 7, based upon the government’s inability to prove that her failure to pay the income taxes was intentional. This case, Beneficial Mortgage Corp., et al. v. Storey, No. 09-3848 (6th Cir. May 16, 2011), involved the [...]
Bankruptcy stops most collection efforts. There’s an automatic stay, an injunction, as soon as the case is filed. Then there is the discharge injunction, when the case is over. Those are the core protections you want and get by filing the bankruptcy case. That’s why you do it, right? The harassment is out of control. You’ve [...]
“I just got served papers for a repo car from 2007. I made copies of it for my paperwork, but I am not sure what to do.” I just got this message from a client. The office is working with him to prepare his chapter 7 bankruptcy filing but he is not yet ready to [...]
