After bankruptcy, get a credit card. Get a couple. Getting back to good credit is one of the five ways bankruptcy gives you a new start....

After Bankruptcy, check your credit score Most people have a credit score of about 620 a couple months after bankruptcy.  That’s from a...

Everyone is required to bring their social security card to their bankruptcy hearing. And a lot of people have lost theirs over the...

As a bankruptcy lawyer, I see many hard working people who fall prey to these internet payday loans. And they are afraid if they stop...

Fifteen years later, Lilly is still getting garnished! Lilly came to see me in my Sterling office last Friday.  When she was much...

U S Senate Votes to Override Bill of Rights Last night, the United States Senate blocked an effort to restore a neglected part of...

Jim gets 3.25% after bankruptcy car loan Just got an email from Jim, who filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy with me in 2015.  His case was...

CFPB Knocks Out Another Scam Yesterday, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau put another credit repair outfit out of business. This was...

Upright Law on trial in Roanoke Bankruptcy court Trial is set on September 25, 2017, for Upright Law, at the bankruptcy courthouse in...

Bankruptcy and Gumption Most people come to talk to me about bankruptcy have been putting it off for years. People want to protect their...

Supreme Court Knocks a Hole in the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act On June 12, 2017, the Supreme Court knocked a hole in consumers’...

Robert Weed has the best rate of bankruptcy dismissed in Northern Virginia Just finished checking on the number of my law firm bankruptcy...

After Bankruptcy: Tammy Gets A Car Loan at 4.48% The same week that her bankruptcy was discharged, Tammy got a car loan at 4.48%. Now I...

After Bankruptcy Mistakes: Navy Fed does the Right Thing; Wells Fargo Makes More Excuses. Everybody makes mistakes. Banks do, too. When...

Holly Gets Hired After Bankruptcy and Gets a New Company Credit Card Holly was at the end of her rope. She’d been out of work for two...

Short sale tax forgiveness has expired. If your house is “under water” you need to read this. The general rule of tax law is that debt...

Looking Back on HAMP and Forward on Student Loan Relief Congress should soon take a look at fastest growing category of consumer...

Can I Cancel the Homeowners Insurance—I’m Moving Out Are you giving up your house as part of your bankruptcy? If you are, can you cancel...

Why do debt collectors keep calling me at work after I tell them to stop? The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act protects you from debt...

Chapter 7 Bankruptcy: Best Plan or Best Guess? Donnell’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy got discharged this month. We have about 30 to 40...