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Filing Bankruptcy: Do I Have To Keep My Condo?

by Kurt O'Keefe, Attorney at Law

Colleague Dana Wilkinson calls it “foreclosure limbo.” You made the difficult decision, accepted reality, you cannot pay your debts, and, even filing bankruptcy, cannot keep your condo.  Or, like one of my clients, the condo you bought for your son’s family, which they could no longer pay. Whether in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy, or Chapter [...]

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The Truth About Chapter 11

by Kurt O'Keefe, Attorney at Law

You may run an incorporated, or, unincorporated, small business. A corporation that wants to keep operating has to file for Chapter 11 to get bankruptcy relief. Individuals may file also;  you do not have to be a corporation to file for Chapter 11. You may own and rent a bunch of houses, operate a store, [...]

A second mortgage lien in the wife’s individual Chapter 13 bankruptcy case has been stripped by a Court, even though the mortgage and lien were in the name of the wife and her non-filing husband. Eastern District of Michigan bankruptcy Judge Rhodes wrote the opinion, finding the debts totally unsecured. In each case, it was [...]