After Bankruptcy

What Can Bankruptcy Help You With?

Call: 888-297-6203 You can get rid of your financial problems by filing for bankruptcy. It can help you eliminate some debts while others survive bankruptcy filing and discharge. However, all your obligations cannot be removed through bankruptcy. For example, student loans, alimony, child support, and tax debts survive bankruptcy. Things you can expect from the bankruptcy Bankruptcy is meant to provide you with a fresh financial start. Irrespective of which chapter of bankruptcy you file (Chapter 7 or Chapter 13), there are some things that bankruptcy can help you with. These include: It stops collection activities and creditor [...]

2023-04-19T09:51:01+00:00

Understanding Automatic Stay In Bankruptcy

Call: 888-297-6203 An injunction known as automatic stay is enforced when you file for bankruptcy. This prevents creditors from taking any sort of collection action against you. Usually, the automatic stay starts immediately after filing for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition. As a result of the automatic stay, lawsuit filing, telephone harassment, wage garnishment, etc., cannot occur. What does automatic stay help you with? The automatic stay prevents all sorts of collection lawsuits, creditor harassment, and collection actions. It remains in place till your chapter 7 bankruptcy case lasts. The automatic stay can temporarily or permanently stop the [...]

2023-04-19T10:03:06+00:00

How Chapter 7 Can Help Small Business Owners

Call: 888-297-6203 A small business owner or a sole proprietor struggling with finances can get rid of their debts by filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. This chapter can help you close the business easily. However, it is not suitable for partnerships, LLC, or corporations as the business will not receive a debt discharge. Moreover, filing for bankruptcy can increase liabilities like lawsuits. You can understand more about bankruptcy by calling 888-297-6203 to consult with experienced bankruptcy lawyers in Los Angeles. Business debts and personal liabilities A personal guarantee makes you liable for any business debt if the business [...]

2023-04-19T10:10:43+00:00

Is Bankruptcy Filing Possible After Moving To A New State?

Call: 888-297-6203 Filing for bankruptcy is possible after moving to a new state. However, the process is a bit complicated. To get rid of your financial debts, you need to file for bankruptcy in the proper court. Every court has a limited jurisdiction with respect to location. While the federal court can hear a bankruptcy case, if you move to a new place, the federal court jurisdiction does not exist. In this case, you might require the assistance of experienced bankruptcy lawyers. If you have moved to a new state, there are some restrictions while filing for bankruptcy. [...]

2023-04-19T10:01:45+00:00

How Automatic Stay In Bankruptcy Stops Your Creditors?

Call: 888-297-6203 Filing for bankruptcy results in a court order called the automatic stay. It helps to immediately stop most collection actions filed against you by any creditor, collection agency, or government entity. In addition, bankruptcy can prevent you from being evicted, foreclosure, repossession, loss of essential resources like utility, and wage garnishments. This relief can be temporary or permanent in some cases. What can Automatic Stay Prevent? The automatic can help you prevent utility disconnections when you are behind utility bills and face disconnection of water, gas, telephone service, electricity. Disconnection can be prevented for up to [...]

2023-04-19T10:06:38+00:00

Bankruptcy Means Test – The Eligibility Factor For Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

Call: 888-297-6203 Chapter 7 bankruptcy or liquidation bankruptcy is for people who cannot repay their loans. However, only people with extremely low incomes can file for this bankruptcy chapter. To be eligible for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, a means test is used to determine whether the bankruptcy filer can repay a portion of their debts through chapter 13 bankruptcy or not. Chapter 7 means test can also help people who earn significant monthly income but have high expenses, including mortgage and car loan payments and taxes that make it easy for them to qualify the Chapter 7 means test. [...]

2023-04-19T09:49:18+00:00

This Is How Your Retirement Plan Will Be Affected If You File For Bankruptcy

Call: 888-297-6203 Under most scenarios, you do not have to lose your Retirement Plan funds or Pension if you plan to file for bankruptcy. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Let's explore them further- You can get your Retirement Account Exempted As against the sayings, you do not have to surrender everything you have when you file for bankruptcy. You are permitted to keep aside basic Modest Requirements to work and live- like your Car, basic household items, along with some equity for your Home. This can be done using the benefit of bankruptcy exemptions. [...]

2023-04-19T09:44:23+00:00

Steps On Choosing A Good Bankruptcy Attorney

Call: 888-297-6203 Filing for bankruptcy is not an easy decision for people to make. A good and experienced attorney can help to relieve you of the stress, as well as also guide you to make the correct decisions to resolve your debt the correct way. While hiring a bankruptcy lawyer, it is important that you consider the following points – Credentials and Associations – Bankruptcy is a very complex matter and a single wrong step might put you in a fix or even make you lose the case. Therefore it is important that when you hire an attorney, [...]

2023-04-19T10:07:59+00:00

How To Deal With A Student Loan If You File For Bankruptcy

Call: 888-297-6203 A student loan is a debt that does not come off very easily. Until and unless you have valid justification and proof that paying your student loan is causing undue hardship on you, it is next to impossible to get rid of it.  Be it Chapter 7 or chapter 13, it is quite difficult to get exemptions from your student loan even if you file for bankruptcy. The exception under Under hardship The definition of undue hardship mostly depends from court to court. If you wish to get your Student loan waived off, you must prove [...]

2023-05-19T06:53:57+00:00

Impact Of Employment Status On Bankruptcy

Call: 888-297-6203 Financial issues can arise with anyone, anytime. The federal bankruptcy law can help you provide financial relief through a bankruptcy filing. Individual bankruptcy filers have the option of choosing between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. However, there are some differences in the way debts are handled in these two chapters. Workings of Chapter 7 bankruptcy Chapter 7 is known as liquidation bankruptcy primarily because the bankruptcy trustee liquidates your non-exempt property (that cannot be protected using exemption laws) to pay your unsecured creditors. This chapter is meant to help unemployed people or people with low-income to [...]

2023-04-19T10:05:03+00:00
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