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Colorado Bankruptcy Homestead Just Increased to $250,000

05/01/22

In Bankruptcy, Can I Protect the Equity in My House? Bankruptcy is set up by the Federal government, but each state sets its own rules on how much equity you can protect if you file Chapter 7 bankruptcy.  That protection is called your homestead exemption.  In April 2022, Colorado raised their homestead exemption from $75,000 […]

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Penalties for Bankruptcy Fraud

04/30/22

April 2022 saw courts dish out two big penalties for Bankruptcy Fraud. In April 2022, over in the UK, former tennis great Boris Becker was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for bankruptcy fraud: hiding $3 million in assets during his case. Becker had landed bankruptcy in the UK back in 2017, because of a […]

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After Paying for Ten Years, Nina Got Public Service Student Loan Debt Forgiveness

01/30/22

After Paying for Ten Years, Nina Got Public Service Student Loan Debt Forgiveness There’s very little bankruptcy law can do to help people with student loans. But as a bankruptcy lawyer, I can at least give people good advice.   Since 2017, I started steering people who seemed eligible to Public Service Student Loan Debt […]

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Alternatives to Bankruptcy: Credit Counselling Debt Management

01/10/22

Alternatives to Bankruptcy: Money Management Credit Counselling For high income people who can’t quite handle their debt, “credit counselling” can be an alternative to bankruptcy. Credit counselling services–the kind I’m talking about anyway–have agreements with the major credit cards on what payments they will accept through their program.  Professional and ethical standards for credit counselling […]

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Stress and Your Heart

01/09/22

Stress May Be Your Heart’s Worst Enemy That’s a headline in today’s New York Times.   I pass that on because as a bankruptcy lawyer I see people defeated by the stress of debt’s they can’t pay.  Good people go for years dragging around bad debts they can’t pay, before they finally take advantage of the […]

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Named A+ Again this Year By Better Business Bureau

01/01/22

I’ve been a member of the Better Business Bureau since 2003.

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Debt Blue or Bankruptcy Which is Better?

12/13/21

Debt Blue Debt Settlement or Bankruptcy: Which is Better?   Blog on Debt Blue Robert Paid them $23673.00 18 month Settled Chase $10,496 and Chase $9719

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Sports Gambling Comes to Virginia

11/11/21

Sports Gambling Comes to Virginia Like most people, I’ve noticed that ads for sports gambling have taken over the TV (at least on basketball and college football, which is about all the TV I watch.) Sports gambling was legalized in Virginia April last year and began in January 2021. Now in October and November, I’ve […]

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Getting Your Mortgage Statements After Bankruptcy

08/18/21

Are you getting your mortgage statements after filing bankruptcy? Some mortgage companies use bankruptcy as an excuse to stop sending mortgage statements. (Or they send them to your lawyer, not to you.) The law is completely clear. The law says to keep sending them to you.  That law is Regulation Z. The Consumer Finance Protection […]

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After Bankruptcy: Please Don’t Go Out and Co-Sign for a Car

08/15/21

After Bankruptcy: Please Don’t Go Right Out and Don’t Co-Sign for a Car Got an email last week that made me sad.  Cherry filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy back in 2017.  She recently went to buy a car and ended up getting financed by Santander at 21%. After she did that, she asked why is her […]

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