Invest Wisely I have to share with you a cautionary tale of a prior client who had an investment in a real estate property on the South side of Chicago. The neighborhood in which he invested was not great.  In fact, it’s one of the two or three neighborhoods in Chicago that has not seen+ Read More

It’s amazing to me that people are worried about getting credit before they even completed a bankruptcy case. This is due in fact based upon Americans desire and obsession for credit. After all, credit is what more than likely got the person into financial problems to begin with. Now there are other causes of bankruptcy+ Read More

Problems Getting Paid In The Past Over the past 20 years, I have been searching for the reason or reasons why bankruptcy judges make it so difficult for bankruptcy attorneys to get paid in Chapter 13 consumer bankruptcy cases. This goes all the way back to the early 1990’s when some judges would simply not+ Read More

Delbert Services Can’t Hide Behind Indian Tribe law–4th Circuit Delbert Services is a debt collector, collecting bad debts for the internet payday lender, Western Sky. Western Sky has been shut down for a couple years.

Delbert Services Can’t Hide Behind Indian Tribe law–4th Circuit Delbert Services is a debt collector, collecting bad debts for the internet payday lender, Western Sky. Western Sky has been shut down for a couple years.  Their “payday loans violated a host of state and federal lending laws.”   Delbert Services has rocked along, collecting those […]

Senator Lyndia Brasch has sponsored a bill in the Nebraska legislature to increase the amount of personal property protected in Nebraska bankruptcy cases.

Depriving local governments of tax revenue is like cutting off oxygen to the body–they can’t live without it.  Local governments and schools in Nebraska depend on a steady flow of real estate tax revenue to keep their doors open.

Chapter 13 in Virginia–A New Nightmare The Bankruptcy Judge in Norfolk just made chapter 13 in Virginia even more dangerous.  And last night one bankruptcy judge in Alexandria hinted that he agrees.   The issue came up the the case of In re Marlene Evans.