Automatic and Immediate Protection from Your Creditors
How does bankruptcy stop garnishments, foreclosures, and repossessions?
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Why Can’t a Creditor Chase You After Your Bankruptcy?
What makes it illegal for your creditor to pursue a discharged debt? What penalties may get awarded to you if a creditor breaks the law?
Saving Your Home Through Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 in Three Scenarios
Here are 3 common scenarios. When is Chapter 7 “straight bankruptcy” enough, and when do you need Chapter 13 “adjustment of debts”?
Keeping a Vehicle with a Debt under Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy”
If you owe a debt on a vehicle, Chapter 7 gives you a narrow choice: keep it and pay on the contract, or surrender it and owe nothing.
Keeping All that You Own by Filing a Chapter 13 Case
How does a Chapter 13 “adjustment of debts” protect what you may otherwise lose in a Chapter 7 “straight bankruptcy”?
Keeping All that You Own in Bankruptcy
Can you really keep everything you own if you file bankruptcy?
U. S. Bankruptcy Laws Took Very Long to Get Off the Ground
The Constitution empowered Congress to “pass uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies,” which then took more than 100 years to do so.
The Truly Amazing History of Bankruptcy Law
Debtors’ prisons? There’s that and a lot more to the very colorful history of bankruptcy law.
A Sample Simple Save-Your-Business Chapter 13 Case
A business Chapter 13 case does not have to be complicated. Here’s how it can work.
Some General Guidance about Business Bankruptcy
If your business needs bankruptcy relief, you have to start with basic questions about how your business was set up and its debt amount.