For decades, Schubach Jewelry has been a staple in Utah’s jewelry business. Long before you had a friend in the diamond business, before he went to Jared, or even before every kiss began [...]
My goal is to make the bankruptcy process as easy and painless as possible. Together we meet that goal in about 99% of the cases. For those cases, the timeline looks a lot like this: Initial [...]
What would you do if you won the lottery? With the Mega Millions lottery at over $1.5 billion, that’s a question lots of people are having fun kicking around. How would you spend your [...]
Sears, purveyor of the iconic Sears catalog, the original wish list, finally filed bankruptcy today, fulfilling speculation that had raged for years about its fate. Sears had been described as [...]
Before a person can file bankruptcy, she has to take a consumer credit counseling class offered by an approved provider. Then, once having filed, before she can get her discharge she has to take [...]
This article in the American Bar Association Journal caught my attention. The long and short of it is that a new associate at a huge law firm bought his fiancee a $100,000 (yep, six figures) [...]
For most individuals, the choices in filing bankruptcy are two: Chapter 7 or Chapter 13. We’ve talked about the differences before. Is it possible that a debtor can’t qualify for [...]
Sometimes creditors will tell you they have “charged off” your debt. That sounds like a good thing, like maybe you don’t owe the money anymore. Right? No, wrong. A charge-off is [...]
Section 523(a)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code contains exceptions for discharge of debts that are fraudulently incurred. This section has two subsections, (A) and (B), which, though similar in a lot [...]
You hear the commercials all the time: get a loan from us to consolidate all your debts into one payment that will be lower than what you’re now paying. Lower payments! Why [...]
