Financial gurus have probably been around since the invention of money thousands of years ago, and in a highly monetized society such as ours, they’re quite prominent. They also frequently offer bad advice about finances, and New York bankruptcy debtors should be skeptical about what they say about bankruptcy—especially when these gurus may have filed …
Utility companies are not like typical creditors for New York bankruptcy debtors. Unlike, say, a credit-card, debtors usually cannot forgo using their utilities. By the same token, utilities aren’t like cell phone providers or other creditors with executory agreements because they’re necessary (and regulated) services debtors need in their homes. So what happens to them …
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Many chapter 7 New York bankruptcy cases feature cars as assets, and for a variety of reasons debtors choose not to hold on to them. One of their options is to surrender them to their auto-loan creditors. Hopefully there’s another option for meeting their transportation needs, but in the meantime debtors may reasonably ask, “When …
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The problem of rising college costs is often associated with the possibility of discharging student loan debt in a New York bankruptcy filing. However, higher-education costs also affect students’ parents. In a new study that appears in the journal Demography, the authors estimate that parental contributions to their children’s college attendance corresponded with higher foreclosure …
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Life goes on after a New York bankruptcy case, and in the ten-year period that the bankruptcy filing appears on a credit report, probably most debtors will try to apply for loans. The question one might ask is, will lenders require any information about a bankruptcy and if so, what? Surprisingly, upon running a credit …
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Many New York bankruptcy debtors own cars and the mandatory insurance that goes along with them. Naturally it’s common for them to wonder what will happen to their auto-insurance premiums when they file bankruptcy. Will they go up? If so, what alternatives do debtors have? The short answer is yes, most auto-insurers charge increased premiums …
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Consider what the difference is between someone who steals money from another and someone who borrows money from another without repaying it. At what point does that amount to simply stealing as well? In New York bankruptcy the line between these two is very important because a creditor that believes it has been cheated by …
An unscrupulous lawyer probably tell you that the best time to file bankruptcy is right now. An experienced New York bankruptcy lawyer by contrast would tell you that timing a bankruptcy filing depends on multiple factors. Here are several that can encourage debtors to file sooner or later. In the case of filing sooner: Preventing …
It’s strange to think that bankruptcy costs money. How are people who don’t have money supposed to be able to pay for bankruptcy? The answer, unfortunately, is that bankruptcy does cost money; however, there are ways New York bankruptcy debtors can use the justice system affordably to gain their fresh start. I discussed this issue …
The auto Web site Jalopnik published an investigative report on the predatory behavior of Credit Acceptance Corporation, a subprime auto-loan company with a poor reputation. The story focuses on debtors who signed auto-loan agreements as far back as the 1990s but are still being hounded by the lender decades later and after wage garnishments. The …
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