Reaffirmation and negotiation

What Can You Do if Your Lawyer Failed to Ask for a Reaffirmation Agreement from Your Mortgage Company?

03/25/20

Recently I received an email from a woman who filed bankruptcy several years ago and who recently discovered that her lawyer had not requested or filed a reaffirmation agreement. She has been current on her mortgage before, during and after her bankruptcy but because there was no reaffirmation agreement filed, the mortgage lender is not reporting her on-time payments to the credit bureaus.

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Co-Signed Loans: An Old Problem that is Making a Comeback

08/08/13

avoid co-signing a debtWhen I first began working in the consumer bankruptcy field, co-signed loans were a common problem that I saw often.  Then c

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