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If you’re thinking about bankruptcy or already in bankruptcy, especially a Chapter 13, the holidays are tough. You want to provide a nice Christmas for the family but money is tight. You [...]

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. In honor of this uniquely American holiday, here are some Thanksgiving trivia facts. The first recorded instance of a fall feast of thanksgiving was in 1621 to celebrate [...]

This question comes up frequently. A couple is separated but not divorced. Only one of the two is filing bankruptcy. Does the non-filing spouse’s income get put on the filer’s [...]

Remember back to 2007 and 2008 when the residential housing market collapsed and we entered the Great Recession? Millions of real estate developers and homeowners filed bankruptcy because the [...]

Sometimes you want a do-over. In golf it’s called a mulligan. In bankruptcy, it’s called “good luck with that.” Whether or not you can dismiss your bankruptcy depends on a [...]

  Donald Trump, now president-elect Donald Trump, has filed bankruptcy four times. Or has he? The Bankruptcies It is true that four times since 1991 a company with Donald Trump’s name [...]

You might think that if someone is judgment proof, no one can get a judgment against them. No, that’s not correct. What it means is that even though a creditor has a judgment or can get a [...]

On this day (November 4) the following presidents were elected: 1856: Buchanan 1884: Cleveland 1924: Coolidge 1952: Eisenhower 1980: Reagan 2008: Obama Note that there are 28 years between each [...]

Gawker.com settled a $140 million lawsuit with 1980s professional wrestler Hulk Hogan. Gawker was (it ceased operations in August) a self-described place for “anarchist journalism at its [...]