In March of this year, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Milavetz v. United States that provisions of the Bankruptcy Code regulating attorneys in bankruptcy cases are constitutional.  The Court found that bankruptcy lawyers must make certain disclosures required by Congress and must include the specific language that the lawyer is a “Debt Relief [...]
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You live in one county, you are considering an attorney in a different county — does it matter? Do you have to see an attorney in the same county you live? (This is part of what you might be considering when you consider who to hire. Whether the attorney needs to be in the same [...]
I know you’ve heard it before (and it’s been written about before, e.g., here, Jay Fleischman’s Where Do You Find Credible Bankruptcy Information), but I just finished meeting with a new client — she almost hadn’t come, having emailed me yesterday saying she had done research on the internet and concluded she could not do [...]
Weather forecasters gave us Rhode Islanders fair warning that we would be experiencing the worst rain storm in over one-hundred years. We even made national news. Small streams were overwhelmed, the water table rose, and property owners that never before worried about such things were forming lines outside Lowe’s and Home Depot hoping to buy [...]
Now you are up to your eyeballs in debt. Your cards are maxed out, the interest rates are high, and the only new credit you can get is tiny and expensive. It’s time to get scammed with sleazy “debt relief” or “credit counseling” services. While there are some reputable companies in the debt relief industry, [...]
According to the Bible, it it moral to file for bankruptcy? Recent studies have shown that the average American family is only three weeks away from personal bankruptcy. So it is time to revisit what the Bible teaches us about debt. The Bible makes it clear that people are generally expected to pay their just [...]
