Bankruptcy Basics

Should You Apologize For Filing Bankruptcy?

03/14/13

Apologize For Filing Bankruptcy? Never!

Sometimes academics who study a subject lose the forests for trees. In the process, they perpetuate stereotypes that have no basis in fact.   And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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Call your Bankruptcy Attorney

03/11/13

telephoneBefore, during and after bankruptcy, if you’ve hired an attorney to help you through the process:  use her!

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7 Letters That Spell Bankruptcy Trouble

03/10/13

caution sign croppedThe word “transfer” has seven letters and only two syllables.

Should be simple, you think.

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Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: The Case Against Big Banks

03/09/13

Last month, Elizabeth Warren asked a pointed question of senior treasury department officials regarding why no enforcement action had ever been taken against a large financial institution.  

“Can you identify when you last took (one of) the Wall Street banks to trial?” she asked the regulators. None could.

 (from the article by Andrew Mega, Huffington Post, March 8, 2013).

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Bankrupt: Girls Gone Wild?

03/08/13

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Don’t click on the Girls Gone Wild (herienafter, GGW) link unless you are ready to view X rated material.

Which, they supposedly get for free, so, why file bankruptcy?

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So you stopped that foreclosure by filing a bankruptcy case. Now what?

03/06/13

Filing a bankruptcy case is the first step in stopping a foreclosure on your home and the imposition of the “automatic stay” on collection activity stops the mortgage lender dead in their tracks, but for how long? Not long enough unless you do what the Bankruptcy Code requires. Make your post petition mortgage payments on [...]

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