Articles from Robert Weed

How to Use Zoom with a Meeting ID and Passcode

How To Join A Meeting On Zoom? | Quick Start Guide
The bankruptcy trustee hearings are on Zoom. If you are not a regular Zoom user, this page shows you what to do. For the instructions on how to join a meeting with Zoom, just click on the link above.  Or click on the picture.

How To Join A Meeting On Zoom? | Quick And Easy Guide

Meet Vanessa, my paralegal, and Callie, my Virtual Assistant

Callie Glade, File Clerk
Callie Glade is the newest member of our team, She just started with us in January 2025.
Callie is a virtual assistant, an AI. She takes over one of the most important jobs in any law firm. She’s our file clerk. When you send in the required papers, she puts them in your file, where Vanessa and I can see them at any time. Callie comes to us through an artificial intelligence program called Glade.AI. She’ll keep in touch with you to make sure we have the papers we need to have to do what we are planning to do.

Keeping Your House as a Widow in Bankruptcy

Keeping Your House as a Widow Filing Bankruptcy in Virginia
One of the tragedies of being a widow is this: You lose the protection for your house that Virginia law gives a married couple filing bankruptcy.

Your mortgage payment needs to be on-the-dot current

In Chapter 13, in Virginia, your mortgage payment needs to be on-the-dot current.
Paying your mortgage payment by the 14th of the month (or later) gets your Chapter 13 case thrown out at the goal line. That’s because of a local bankruptcy rule, Rule 3002.1-1 in the Eastern District of Virginia

Better Business Bureau Accredited A+

The Better Business Bureau just renewed my A+ accreditation. I’ve been a member of the BBB for more than twenty years.

Avvo Client Choice Award

 

I’m out until August 26

I’ll be gone for two weeks
 
I’m leaving for the longest vacation since I became a Virginia lawyer in 1985. If you want to talk to a qualified bankruptcy lawyer right away, I can suggest these two.  Michael Sandler, in Woodbridge.  Or Ashley Morgan, in Herndon.
I’d like to talk to you the week of August 26

Virginia Mortgage Relief Helped Prevent Foreclosures

Virginia Mortgage Relief HAF Program Runs Out of Money
Virginia Mortgage Relief Homeowner Assistance FundVirginia Mortgage Relief HAF Program was financed by the American Rescue Plan

The Chapter 13 Trustee Will Have Objections

Let’s schedule a meeting now. We know the Trustee will object.
Chapter 13 Trustee Thomas GormanWhen your Zoom meeting with Thomas Gorman is over, he’ll go back to his desk and send us his objections to our Chapter 13 plan. He always does.

Valuing Your Clothes and Furniture on Your Bankruptcy Papers

“You mean to tell me you don’t have any underwear!”
 
When I was much younger, I practiced bankruptcy law in Baltimore City. Judge Kiser, the bankruptcy judge, made people inventory their underwear.  

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