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By Eugene Kim In re Majestic Star Casino, LLC, F.3d 736 (3rd Cir. 2013) , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit broke from other courts by holding that S corporation status (or "qualified subchapter S subsidiary" or "QSub" ... Read full article

Social Media sites, and Facebook in particular, have changed the practice of law.  Divorce lawyers regularly review the opposing party's Facebook profile for evidence of adulte ... Read full article

I have written before about the pros and cons of entering into a reaf ... Read full article

If you are purchasing a vehicle and you file Chapter 7, your options are (1) surrender the vehicle, (2) reaffirm the existing loan, or (3) redeem the vehicle by paying the lender fair market value.  Redemption, which is described at Section 722 of the ... Read full article

Most people know that Chapter 7 allows you to wipe out unsecured debt – credit card bills, medical debt and other ... Read full article

Because I handle both personal bankruptcy cases and Social Security disability cases, I ... Read full article

Yesterday, my son graduated from high school.   His class selected a math/environmental sciences teacher named Nicole Brite to deliver the faculty address to the senior ... Read full article

Earlier this month on my Atlanta-bankruptcy web site blog I discussed < ... Read full article

As you may know, last year Congress passed a law called the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009.  This law, nicknamed the CARD Act of 2009, was designed to regulate a variety of unpopular credit card tactics , such as ... Read full article

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a creditor friendly decision in the case of ... Read full article

My Bankruptcy Law Network colleague Dana Wilkinson, who practices in South Carolina, reports on ... Read full article

The United States Trustee has released revised median income figures for Georgia households.  These new figures will apply to Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cases file ... Read full article

United Press and about two dozen tabloid web sites and blogs are reporting that reality TV star Teresa Guidice, and her husband Joe ... Read full article

The Wall Street Journal recently published a new story entitled ... Read full article

If you have been reading your local newspapers, you may be aware that Nath ... Read full article

There are dozens of lawyers out there who offer to prepare and file b ... Read full article