Bankruptcy and real estate taxes:  Counties are desperate Filing bankruptcy gets rid of most of your debts; but it does not necessarily...

Your Credit Report after Bankruptcy: Do You Want to Get It Right? I’m one of a handful of lawyers in the country who promises to fight...

About a month after we file your bankruptcy papers, we go with you to your bankruptcy hearing. The U S Trustee’s office here in...

Do I need to file business bankruptcy? A lot of people who think they need to file business bankruptcy really don’t.   They often need to...

I don’t take the “car wash” approach to bankruptcy. Car wash approach?  What’s that? At the car wash, you drive up, pay them, they run...

Bankruptcy and bank statements Planning to file bankruptcy?  You will need to round up bank statements.  You’ll need them at...

Before bankruptcy:  three reasons to change banks When people talk to me about filing bankruptcy, I often tell them to change banks. Here...

Your bankruptcy means test may be too high if you file your bankruptcy case in January 2012. People with bi-weekly paychecks get 26...

Defense cutbacks are now certain.  (At least as certain as anything is in this world.) Lots of people whose jobs seem safe now will soon...

You see them eating along side the interstate, and wonder how they dodge the on-rushing traffic.  That’s the “buzzard” — formally known...

Here’s an email I got today from Jennifer. Jen and Ken filed bankruptcy in February 2010. Because Jen’s bankruptcy does NOT show on her...

When you file bankruptcy, your creditors are required to leave you alone. Section 362 of the bankruptcy law automatically tells them to...

When you file bankruptcy, most banks don’t take it personally.  USAA does. So if you file bankruptcy on a debt to USAA, they may cancel...

Filing bankruptcy got easier in Virginia on July 1.  The exemption for cars increased to six thousand dollars.  Sen. Chap Petersen helped...

Last fall, Judge Robert Mayer, our bankruptcy judge in Alexandria, tossed out the bankruptcy of a guy for lying on his forms about the...

Tuesday, I saw a press release from NCO, one of the largest of the debt collection companies.   While many businesses are slow to add...

I don’t like Chapter 13 bankruptcy. One reason is this. Your credit so much much worse than if you filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. I don’t...

File bankruptcy? Stop paying? Don’t leave that house! Here’s a quiz.  You’ve decided to file bankruptcy to get rid of that big mortgage...

One reason to file bankruptcy is to get back to good credit.  Once your credit has gone bad, bankruptcy, for most people, is the fastest...

Before I became a bankruptcy lawyer, I thought that successful companies were generally pretty honest.  I would have guessed they were...