Bankruptcy Blogs

The now infamous debt collector with the fake court room has become a Chapter 13 bankruptcy debtor himself.  After facing a lawsuit by the Attorney General of Pennsylvania and a hospital upset for millions in possibly uncollectable debts because of his actions, he has filed Chapter 13 bankruptcy to apparently to avoid the case in [...]

If you have been reading Bankruptcy Law Network recently, you would have seen various articles about reaffirmations.  What they are, what they do, under what circumstances you should reaffirm a debt or mortgage and when you should not.  There are even some courts that say you must reaffirm a car loan in bankruptcy.  But there [...]

When you file Chapter 7 bankruptcy, one option you have is to reaffirm your mortgage.  Do you have to reaffirm in order to refinance later?  Of course not, but your lender may try to tell you otherwise. Other articles here discuss the actual process of reaffirming a debt.  And the pros and cons of doing [...]

Just days after the Justice Department filed an appeal of a ruling declaring the federal ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, lawyers for a same-sex couple at the center of a bankruptcy dispute upped the ante by asking the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to take the case.

A bankruptcy case that’s flown under the radar for nearly two years may finally be getting its moment in the spotlight, thanks to a recent appellate-court ruling that upholds the practice of lenders using debt as currency in their bids to take back assets.

RadLax Gateway Hotel LLC—which owns a struggling Radisson by the Los Angeles International Airport—is like the forgotten younger sibling of hotel bankruptcy cases, always giving up the spotlight to River Road Hotel Partners LLC.