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What All Documents You Will Need To File For Bankruptcy?

Call: 888-297-6203 Planning for consulting a bankruptcy attorney? First, gather and organize 10 documents that you will need. Income Proofs– Assemble income data, like, pay stubs from the last 2 months, your yearly social security aide grant letter, as well as profit and loss statement from any organizations you own or potentially work with. The court should know how much cash you are making and whether you are documenting the right chapter of bankruptcy. Bank statement- Collect bank statements from all the bank accounts under your name for the last 3 months as well if you have closed any [...]

2025-08-13T05:41:45+00:00

How Can You Redeem Your Secured Property Under Chapter 7 Bankruptcy?

Call: 888-297-6203 Redemption is paying back your creditor the actual value of the property in full. This way you get to keep your property without having to surrender it. You should go for redemption if you owe your creditor more loan than the actual value of the property. Explaining the court what you will do with the Collateral Property When you file for bankruptcy under chapter 7, you have to mention in your bankruptcy form your intent on dealing with your collateral property. Whenever you purchase an asset or property, the creditor takes a lien on your property, [...]

2023-04-19T11:13:37+00:00

How Does Your Bankruptcy Case Initiate?

Call: 888-297-6203 People often end up owing money to credit card companies, medical providers, student loan holders, or any other creditor. If you are behind payments, the creditors might sue you to collect what you owe them. Usually, the creditor or collection agency might file a formal petition against you in court for non-payment of dues. The collection agency or their lawyer is required to serve you with a copy of the complaint along with a summon, which notifies you that you are being sued for non-payment of dues. The summon also notifies you when you are required [...]

2023-04-19T10:27:36+00:00

Misconceptions That People Commonly Have About Bankruptcy

Call: 888-297-6203 Filing for bankruptcy is not easy, most importantly due to the commonly held fears that people hear and believe in. it is nothing to be embarrassed about or be scared of. Listed below are a few common misbelieve that people have- People Judge you – NO one has soo much time to sit and judge you, so you needn’t be embarrassed. The attorney and judge are busy doing their work and no is going to judge you on thoughts like you are filing to dodge debts or that you have bad financial skills. Bankruptcy can happen [...]

2023-04-19T10:18:30+00:00

All You Need To Know About Bankruptcy Automatic Stay

Call: 888-297-6203 Automatic Stay is a protection given by the court to the debtor from its creditors. When in debt, the debtors are usually harassed by continuous collection calls along with other collection techniques from the creditors. However, once a person applies to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 or Chapter 13, an automatic stay is put into effect immediately. So until the stay is in effect, the creditors cannot contact you for collection and they will be paid off as per the rules of the chapter that you have filed under. However, under certain circumstances, the creditor [...]

2025-08-13T04:55:00+00:00

What All You Need To Know While Preparing For A Meeting With The Trustee?

Call: 888-297-6203 Trustee meeting is a very essential aspect when filing for bankruptcy. This meeting is also referred to as “341 Meeting” or “Meeting of Creditors”. What is a trustee meeting? The basic criterion of the trustee meeting is the oath-taking confirmation. Here, the trustee, under oath will first confirm your identity by verifying your Photo ID as well as your Social Security card. Post this, the trustee will require your first-hand confirmation to signing of the bankruptcy petition papers along with your signatures. This is done to prevent any kind of malpractice or deceptive act. The above [...]

2025-08-12T13:00:35+00:00

Why Hiring A Bankruptcy Lawyer Is Important?

Call: 888-297-6203 Individuals filing for bankruptcy can do so without an attorney. However, doing so is not always advisable. This is because Chapter 7 involves the liquidation of your assets. In contrast, chapter 13 involves a repayment plan to save your non-exempt property. Neither of these two is straightforward enough to be handled independently without any legal expertise. A bankruptcy attorney can recognize potential problems in your bankruptcy case. As a result, it is important to seek bankruptcy attorney's assistance. Here is what a bankruptcy attorney can help you with: While bankruptcy is an excellent way to get [...]

2025-08-13T05:09:46+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 [...]

2025-08-13T04:59:25+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, [...]

2025-08-13T05:08:39+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 [...]

2025-08-25T12:30:09+00:00
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