Bankruptcy Blogs

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, former football star Warren Sapp’s debts catch up with him, broke sports agent Leigh Steinberg aims fo

At your bankruptcy hearing, you are supposed to show your bankruptcy trustee a picture ID and evidence of your social security number.  The best way to prove your social security number is with your social security card.  However, a W-2 will also work.  (At the bankruptcy court here in Alexandria, VA, your own tax form is usually not good enough.)

For self employed people, there may be no W-2.  So what to do?

The trustee unwinding the brokerage operations of MF Global Holdings Ltd. said Thursday that he may sue former officers and directors of the company, a group that includes former Chief Executive Jon S. Corzine. Read Daily Bankruptcy Review story here in The Wall Street Journal.

Exposing complex financial instruments to the vetting of thousands of experts could help restore trust in banks.

Last week, an editor at the Atlanta Journal Constitution contacted me to ask if I would write a guest editorial about student loans and bankruptcy.  Here is a slightly enhanc