In a typical chapter 13 New York bankruptcy repayment plan, the debtor pays any prepetition mortgage arrearages in the regular plan payments to the trustee in full and any post-petition mortgage payments directly to the lender as though the bankruptcy had not occurred. Two separate payments might be cumbersome to debtors, so the question is …
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A few weeks back, I wrote about how New York bankruptcy addresses publicly issued licenses, ranging from driver’s licenses to occupational licenses. Now I’ll discuss private licenses, which generally come up in bankruptcy cases with a business dimension. What are these and how do they work? Actually, people buy private licenses all the time without …
One of the questions raised since Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) six years ago is whether decreasing uninsured rates would also reduce medical bankruptcy. One mechanism the ACA enacted was a requirement that states expand Medicaid, but the U.S. Supreme struck that down, leaving state governments with the choice of expanding the program …
Federal Reserve: Health Insurance Can Keep You Out of Bankruptcy Read More »
Much reporting on college education or student loans confuses or misleads audiences. One source that’s been particularly outspoken in the last couple months, The Wall Street Journal, ran a few articles worrying about the large sums of federal student loans going unrepaid, perhaps $200 billion. It’s a serious issue, but it’s important that student-loan debtors …
Don’t Confuse Your Student-Loan Problems With the Government’s Read More »
It’s understandable that debtors would pawn property before considering New York bankruptcy. It’s sort of like a securitized payday loan. It’s also common for debtors’ property to be repossessed, which I’ve discussed here. What’s not necessarily intuitive is why after a debtor files bankruptcy the repossessed property is returned but the pawned property is not. …
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Because most New York bankruptcy cases are filed by debtors who are unfamiliar with the process, undoubtedly many want information about their cases’ progress. The same goes for creditors who have been informed of their debtors’ bankruptcies. Good bankruptcy attorneys naturally supply their clients with new developments as they arise, but with the rapid advances …
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Business bankruptcies appear in the news so regularly that it’s easy to ignore them. However, when it’s your employer’s business that files bankruptcy, then it’s your problem. Here are some facts you’ll want to know. First, it’s necessary to distinguish which chapter the business is filing in. Businesses can’t file in chapter 13, so that …
Understanding the state of household finances in the U.S. can give debtors a benchmark to compare their circumstances to. The Federal Reserve recently published its “Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2015,” which is based on the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED). The SHED is only three years old and …
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There are a variety of licenses issued by government bodies that debtors might have before commencing a New York bankruptcy case, typically driver’s licenses and occupational licenses. As a result, debtors might want to know how the Bankruptcy Code treats them to ensure that they can keep them. The Bankruptcy Code clearly sides with debtors …
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