Success in Chapter 13: What You Need to Know
Success in Chapter 13: What You Need to Know You want to be one of three consumers who succeed in Chapter 13. As the lawyer in over a thousand successful Chapter 13 cases, I’ve collected tips for success in Chapter 13. The Chapter 13 Trustee in Northern...Here’s What We Need for our Second Meeting
Here’s what we usually need for our second meeting The Be Happy form is mostly bio information that we need to get your case approved. You can start here. (Please don’t budget too low on your food and clothes.) We’ll need a credit report. You have...
Your Bankruptcy Budget–Don’t Forget Coffee
Your Bankruptcy Budget When you fill out your bankruptcy budget, remember inflation. Some people give me a food budget that might have worked ten years ago, but not now. Some people think of just the grocery store budget and forget they get coffee every morning...
Chapter 13 Payment Information
Here’s How You Can Make Your Chapter 13 Payments in the Alexandria VA Bankruptcy Court The bankruptcy law tells you to make your first Chapter 13 payment one month after your bankruptcy case is filed. If you forget, or bounce, your first payment, the Chapter 13...What Does Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Cost in Virginia?
Here’s our payment schedule and work schedule: Fee Agreement April 2024 Lawyers are required to tell you what work we do for the money you pay. A lot of lawyers are pretty sketchy about that. I try to do better. Do You Get More for Your Money with Us? Higher success...
We’re Zooming Virtual Bankruptcy Consultations
We’ve been Zooming–doing Zoom bankruptcy consultations–since April 2020. We’re sticking with it. We stopped in-office consultations with the March 2020 pandemic lock down. (I first heard of Zoom when my church started using it. We’re a small congregation and can see...We Win Our Appeal–Chapter 13
Robert traded his 2007 Ford Mustang on a new Ford Focus shortly before filing Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Virginia bankruptcy lawyer Kaitlin Vaillancourt worked with me on this Chapter 13 appeal. Thomas Gorman, the Chapter 13 trustee, objected that was “bad faith.” Robert...