Bankruptcy Blogs

Minooka Bankruptcy Lawyer On How Often One Can File Chapter 7

07/27/11

Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Every Eight Years You can file a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case once every eight years. So oftentimes, we will see somebody where the eight years has not elapsed yet.  But, it may be coming up soon, six months or a year or something like that. We will still take their case.  We [...]

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Durbin's Unintended Consequence for the Underbanked

07/26/11

In attempting to prevent abuses of the interchange cap exemption for reloadable prepaid cards, the Fed may have inadvertently scuttled an opportunity for banks to serve low-balance account holders.

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Best Bankruptcy Attorney YouTube Performances, Part 1

07/26/11

As part of the ever growing blawgosphere, we here at National Bankruptcy Forum come in contact with marketing savvy bankruptcy attorneys everyday. Many of our tech savvy members actively advertise their law firms on television and Youtube, so we thought we’d have a little fun and highlight some of the best performances by bankruptcy attorneys [...]

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Russian Mogul Pulls Electric Car from Financial Wreckage

07/26/11
Associated Press
Karl Turner, director of manufacturing for Think, leads a tour of the Think plant in Elkhart, Ind.

It’s an electric car with more lives than a Jaguar.

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GM Bankruptcy ‘Unusually Inexpensive’

07/26/11
Getty Images

The total professional bill for General Motors’ bankruptcy case topped $110 million, but for a company of that size, the charges are astonishingly low, said Lynn

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