The legal cannabis industry is estimated to be around $10 billion. As more states legalize some form of marijuana use, whether medicinal or recreational, that number is sure to grow. Ever since [...]
As 2018 wraps up, millions of people are finalizing their divorces, trying to beat the New Year. The reason is that December 31, 2018, marks the end of tax deductions for alimony payments. If a [...]
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 [...]
