Bankruptcy Blogs

The Daily Docket: Hedge Funds Want Trustee to Take Over Patriot Coal

04/01/13

Two hedge funds are asking that an outsider take over Patriot Coal Corp. in order to extricate it from a bitter fight with its miners union. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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How Can Megabanks Revamp Their Image? Go Back to Basics

04/01/13

Human enterprise is powered by financial resources and expertise. Banks truly can help people in all walks of life accomplish what they set out to do.

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Financial Education in Singapore

03/31/13

As Lauren's work has detailed, there's a veritable financial literacy industry in the United States. The CFPB is even charged with undertaking certain financial literacy initiatives. As it turns out Singapore is a full decade ahead of us on this front.  The government of Singapore has a quite good financial education website.  

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What’s Baseball Got to Do with Bankruptcy?

03/31/13

Batter Hitting Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAPTER 13 TRUSTEES
vs.
AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAPTER 13 DEBTORS

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5 Ways To Celebrate Financial Literacy Month

03/31/13

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Financial Literacy Month begins tomorrow and continues until May rears its head. Why not turn it into a party?

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Can they put a lien on the house I bought after the bankruptcy?

03/30/13

Did you put off filing bankruptcy until after somebody got a judgment against you?

Pre-bankruptcy judgments are liens on property you own before the bankruptcy.  (Sometimes they can be removed;  sometimes they can’t.)   But they do NOT become a lien on property you buy after the bankruptcy.

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A Warning Against Do It Yourself Legal Forms

03/29/13
A debtor avoided losing her home in a recent case illustrating the perils of do it yourself legal forms.    Lowe v. Vazquez, No. SA-12-CV-00399-DAE (W.D. Tex. 3/28/13).    
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Emails Show Ex-Deutsche Trader Lippmann Wanted Lehman Derivatives

03/29/13
Bloomberg News
Greg Lippmann speaks during the Bloomberg Link Hedge Funds 2010 conference at the Guggenheim Museum.

Former

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The Broke and the Beautiful: Dionne Warwick Edition

03/29/13

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, singer Dionne Warwick says a little prayer in bankruptcy, and a new book paints a foul picture of Lenny Dykstra. Also, actor Alec Baldwin is helping out Central Falls High School in its bid to enter a chess tournament.

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