It’s an important question for people considering filing New York bankruptcy. Put differently, how much do people typically expect to gain from bankruptcy? In a similar context, many times debtors will also want to know how common their situation is compared to other debtors’. If it’s more common, they might not feel that filing bankruptcy …
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Whenever people looking into New York bankruptcy hear about the median family income for their state, they usually think that it has something to do with chapter 7. Generally, this hunch is correct. Petitioners with incomes above the state median, after adjusting for family size, will have to take the means test. If they fail …
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People who are interested in filing chapter 13 New York bankruptcy will obviously want to know if they meet all the chapter’s requirements, which are stricter than chapter 7’s. For example, it has debt limits, above which debtors must file in chapter 7 or chapter 11, but Section 109(e) also restricts chapter 13 to “individuals …
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It’s possible to discharge some tax debts in New York bankruptcy, but the requirements can be difficult to meet, so it’s possible for debtors to not qualify for tax debt discharge. However, there is another option to slogging through an IRS tax debt: settlement. The IRS has a program called “offer in compromise,” which allows …
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It’s quite common that people who’ve been injured can’t work or afford medical treatments. The Affordable Care Act will help them a lot, but even if they have a winning lawsuit claim against whoever injured them, a settlement or judgment might be a long way off. As a result, a large industry of lawsuit loans …
One of the most questionable changes to the Bankruptcy Code in the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) was to extend the “undue hardship” standard to discharging private student loans. For New York bankruptcy, this meant that irrespective of who the lender was student debts were basically permanent. Fortunately, for federal loan …
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Most of the time, people in debt are warned about debt settlement or credit rehabilitation scams, both of which can cost force them to file New York bankruptcy. However, there are many other ways con artists try to get honest people, one of which is especially troublesome since the housing bubble burst several years ago: …
Chapter 13 New York bankruptcy can be a more flexible way to get a fresh start than chapter 7 or chapter 11, but debtors might be concerned that it’s hard to meet the requirements to file. On the contrary, the requirements for filing in chapter 13 are light. They’re mostly confined to 11 U.S.C. § …
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If you are considering filing New York bankruptcy, you might have heard of a program called the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and you may be curious if it can help you instead. Chances are it can. The EITC is a mid-1970s policy enacted by Congress that’s designed to help American workers stay above water …
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Chapter 7 New York bankruptcy is usually used by people with significant unsecured debts and little reliable income to repay them. Homeowners filing chapter 7 usually intend to stay in their homes or at most discharge a mortgage deficiency after selling them. Sometimes a domestic partner is eligible for chapter 7 because he or she …
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