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Reduce Your Car Loan

04/27/13

It’s important to keep a car. We all know this. We need to get to work, and we need to shop for our family. Sometimes our circumstances change and a vehicle loan that was once affordable, well, no longer is. The law recognizes this and wants to help.

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Trouble Getting a Mortgage Modification? Get Your Bankruptcy Court to Help!

04/26/13

Homeowners experiencing financial difficulties can avoid losing their homes by getting a mortgage modification. The trouble many people have is getting their mortgage company to agree to grant them an affordable modification.

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Random Bankruptcy Audits Stopped

04/24/13

Random audits of consumer debtors in bankruptcy cases have stopped.

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Bankruptcy 420

04/21/13

In honor of April 20th everywhere, and in the immortal Hollywood movie words of Jeff Spicoli, Hey dude, let’s party.

But first, a quick drug trivia lesson.

Who said “Are you on drugs?”  My Cousin Vinny’s Judge Chamberlain Haller.  Don’t you just love that movie, I know I do.

Who sang “Everybody must get stoned”?  Bob Dylan, though Dylan was referring to the biblical act of being stoned by actual rocks.

What does the number 420 [4:20 or 4/20] have to do with bankruptcy? [silent pause]

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Missouri Bankruptcy: Tax Refund Credits Protected

04/18/13

IRS wheres_my_refund_engMissouri bankruptcy filers have more protection for their tax refunds now.  Particularly working families have more certainty their financial needs won’t be disrupted when they need to file Chapter 7.

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Student Loan Bankruptcy Problem A Doozy

04/17/13
Image courtesy of Dreamstime

Image courtesy of Dreamstime

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Should You Buy a Car Prior to Filing Chapter 13?

04/14/13

buying a car--chapter 13You may want to consider buying a car prior to filing your Chapter 13 bankruptcy case.

Filing bankruptcy isn’t a matter of going to your bankruptcy lawyer’s office, plunking your money down, and signing a few documents. It involves planning.

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