If you’re looking to save a home from foreclosure, chapter 13 will help you provided you file your bankruptcy case before a Sheriff sale has taken place. Chapter 13 will allow for you to pay back your mortgage arrearages over a three to five-year period.

Our Walworth Bankruptcy Attorney has heard time and again from clients that they are afraid to file bankruptcy for fear of losing their retirement funds, such as their IRA. Firstly, we would like you to know that in most cases, your IRA and other retirement funds will be protected. The current Wisconsin bankruptcy code allows you to protect your IRA. Other retirement plans garner the same protection.
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Bringing you the most up-to-date news, tips and blogs throughout the web. Here’s your Bankruptcy Update for January 23, 2014 Former Texas quarterback Vince Young files for bankruptcy Free Lance-Star publisher files for bankruptcy Martifer Solar USA files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

One reason many consumers overlook the possibility of filing for bankruptcy is fear of losing retirements funds such as an IRA (Individual Retirement Account). While there may be limitations on how much of your retirement funds can be protected, in most cases the funds you have saved can be protected without further questioning.  It is [...]

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Court Is In Chicago If you live in Chicago or any part of Cook County, Illinois and file bankruptcy, then your court date is going to be in downtown Chicago. The court will take place at the Dirksen Federal building which is located at 219 South Dearborn Street in Chicago.

Walk out of bankruptcy debt-free? Maybe, but if you don’t pay the mortgage then you’ll still lose the house.
When you take out a loan to buy real estate, the bank takes a lien out on the property. Fail to pay the mortgage and the bank will foreclose on the lien to take back the property.