Articles from Diane L. Drain - Phoenix Bankruptcy & Foreclosure Attorney

February of 2016 Diane was named Outstanding Pro Bono Attorney of the Month by the Volunteer Lawyers Program. The Volunteer Lawyers Program is a joint project of Community Legal Services Inc. and the Maricopa County Bar Association.

On December 8, 2015, Bankruptcy Judge Daniel Collins entered an order enjoining Carla Lief, Carla’s Paralegal Services LLC, an Arizona document preparer, finding that she violated the terms of a 2009 agreement with Bankruptcy Judge Baum. On November 2, 2015 Judge Collins enjoined Ms. Lief from further document preparation work in this district for at least one year.  She ignored that injunction.

Ever wonder how some of our laws are passed?  Here is another example of an important change in the law buried in an innocuous bill.   Would you believe a highway funding bill could include a law allowing the IRS to hire private debt collectors?  Sounds ridiculous, right?  Surprise – take a look at the new “

As of December 1 2015 most of the official Bankruptcy Forms were substantially revised, reformatted, and renumbered versions.  In 2008 the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy rules decided that the forms needed to be “modernization”.  One of the major changes is the creation of different versions of case opening forms for individual debtors and non-individual debtors.  Below are links to the instruction booklets for individual debtors, for non-individual debtors, and to a forms number conversion chart.