Bankruptcy

My Husband (or Wife) is Filing a BankruptcyHow Will It Affect Me
When your spouse files a bankruptcy it could affect you in several ways.  In January, Atlanta bankruptcy attorney Jonathan Ginsberg wisely suggested on these pages that a non-filing spouse should consider hiring her own lawyer...

Filing Two Bankruptcy Cases Can Be A Smart Move
You might be wondering how filing two bankruptcy cases could possibly be legal, or why somebody would ever want to do it.  Actually, filing two bankruptcy cases is not that unusual, although most would not benefit from this process...

My Husband (or Wife) is Filing a BankruptcyHow Will It Affect My Retirement Contributions and Loans
There are many ways a bankruptcy trustee can try to increase the amount your spouse’s creditors will get paid in the bankruptcy.  The trustee can look at any single expense of the household and try to attack it as being unreasonable...

Bankruptcy Filings up Nearly 31 Percent
Despite the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) that went into effect on October 17, 2005, the number of consumers and businesses filing bankruptcy is on the rise...

Protecting debtors from failure to hire, promote or termination after filing bankruptcy
The stigma of filing bankruptcy has stopped many debtors who rightfully and propably necessarily need to file bankruptcy. The truth of the matter is that filing bankruptcy is a right granted to all Americans by Congress and as such, is a protected right...

Can Filing Fees for Filing Bankruptcy Be Waived
The 2005 amendments to the Bankruptcy Code added 28 U.S.C. Section 1930(f)(1) which provides for the waiver of Chapter 7 filing fees. This provision is implemented through Bankruptcy Rule 1006(c)...

How to Stop Home Foreclosure
Bankruptcy can Stop Foreclosure

Bankruptcy Law
A complete prime (pre-2005)

Air Line Bankruptcy
BCI Aircraft Leasing agrees to pay $600,000 settlement related to Delta Air Lines bankruptcy claims.

Bankruptcy Reorganization
Calpine Corp. pays $2.13 million bankruptcy settlement.

Celebrity Chef
John Burton Race ordered to pay wife $7.2 million divorce settlement.

NBA Divorce
Michael Jordan pays former wife $168 million divorce settlement.

Bankruptcy
helping to get you out of debt.

Washington Mutual Bank Collapse
May File for Bankruptcy