Overview This is the bankruptcy case study for Mr. and Mrs. C., who reside in Addison, Illinois. Although the case will be filed in DuPage County, the majority of the assets reside in another county. Let’s begin with the fact that the couple rents their current home in Addison. Their former home was foreclosed upon+ Read More

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan recently considered the issue of whether a Chapter 7 trustee may bring a cause of action against a debtor for damages caused to the bankruptcy estate by the debtor’s alleged failure to comply with the debtor’s duties under section 521 of the Bankruptcy Code.

Plan Payment Problems A common problem that happens in a chapter 13 bankruptcy case is the inability to continue to make plan payments. This inability to make the plan payment can happen for a variety of reasons. The most common reasons are job loss, illness, injury, divorce, and other catastrophic events. Just recently, a couple+ Read More

Here at Shenwick & Associates, our goal for our consumer bankruptcy clients is to get as many of their debts as possible discharged, while enabling them to maximize the property they can keep in bankruptcy, which is exempted from the debtor’s bankruptcy estate that comes into being when a bankruptcy case is filed.

Bankruptcy law is a federal system, but there’s a complex interplay between state and federal law in practice.  And this relationship between state and federal law also holds true for exemptions from bankruptcy.

Filing a Walworth County bankruptcy is a major decision that no one takes lightly. Although we all want to pay all of our bills in full, sometimes, life gets in the way. We may encounter an illness, a divorce, a medical emergency, or another predicament that results in uncontrollable debt. Bankruptcy laws were designed to help us in those types of situations, so we can get back to making ends meet.

State Prosecutors Accuse Student Loan Giant Of Wrongdoing
According to the Huffpost Business Navient Corp., the nation’s largest student loan company, violated state laws that ban unfair or abusive practices by paying call center workers based on how quickly they could get struggling borrowers off the phone, a group of more than two dozen state attorneys general alleged.  For more

Income Whether you are eligible to file under a particular chapter of the bankruptcy code is dependent upon a number of factors. One of the most critical factors is whether or not you qualify based on income. Income is calculated based upon all sources for one part of the bankruptcy petition, yet not necessarily included+ Read More

After a loved one or close friend dies in Walworth County, you may not know what to do. During this time of grief, it can be extremely difficult to thoroughly address the details of an estate. Clients often ask us what they need to do after the death of a loved one in Walworth County. You will find the following information beneficial when addressing the estate of a deceased loved one.
 

  Booted, Repossessed, Impounded Other than death, divorce and job loss, there is nothing worse than heading out to your car only to find out that it has been either booted, repossessed or impounded. If you find yourself in such a situation, you still have options to retrieve your car. The remedy is chapter 13+ Read More

Alice Gets After Bankruptcy Car Loan at 4.76% Alice came to see me in March 2015. She’d just gotten back to work after being out for over a year.  Her financial situation was so bad, she’d been living in a women’s crisis center, at very low rent We filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.