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This guest post comes from Andrea Whitmer at So Over Debt. I've posted about my experience with Chapter 7 bankruptcy several times, including a detailed explanation of how bankruptcy works. One thing I haven't done, though, is talk much about how that ...

With average cost of filing bankruptcy around $1,500, according to new research released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, it's no wonder as many as 1 million Americans can't afford it. In some cases, consumers turn to legal counseling services ...

MF Global Holdings Ltd. (MFGLQ) Chapter 11 trustee, Louis Freeh, was given the right by a London judge to participate in all U.K. court proceedings involving the failed brokerage. Judge David Richards signed off on the application at a hearing today.

A rare and coveted “Metropolis” movie poster — one of only four known  surviving copies from the 1927 silent classic — has been seized as part of a  Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy case involving its owner Kenneth Schacter, a  well ...

About $7 million in savings would come from cutting retiree health ... Stockton's confidential mediation with its creditors - required by a state law approved after the bankruptcy of Vallejo, California in 2008 - was part of an effort launched ...