Articles from Oregon Bankruptcy Lawyer | Portland, Salem, and Vancouver, Wa

Sometimes it’s helpful to have kind of a global or overhead view of a process before drilling down in into the particulars. What follows is a view of Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Oregon and Washington from 30,000 feet up. I mean that both figuratively and literally as I am writing this 30,000 feet above eastern Oregon on a flight into Portland. Anyway, here goes nothing.

So you were in the marijuana business or worked in it and things didn’t work out. Now you are thinking about filing bankruptcy and wonder what effect, if any, your former business or employer is going to have on you.  As bizarre as it might sound to anyone living in Portland or Salem where dispensaries have become about as ubiquitous as gas stations, this can be a real problem. 
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A little known secret about bankruptcy in Washington is that you can get most of the benefits of a bankruptcy discharge even if your spouse filed and you don’t. This is so because of Section 523(a)(5) of the bankruptcy code, a little known provision that applies to a bankruptcy discharge in a community property state. So the provision is helpful in Washington, but not in Oregon.