A common preceding cause of a bankruptcy filing is a car repossession. On a basic level, a car loan is a secured debt. This means ...
A common misconception about bankruptcy, especially Chapter 7 bankruptcy, is that you lose all of your property upon filing. This ...
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is a federal statute originally signed into law in the late 1970s that is designed to ...
Last week we started to address the various schedules that constitute a bankruptcy petition. We addressed Schedule A (covering ...
Every situation is different, and each bankruptcy case is unique in the circumstances that precipitated its filing. This is one of ...
We discussed yesterday the basic concepts of the automatic stay in a bankruptcy case. The automatic stay stops all debt collection ...