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 Do Lawyers Charge for Chapter 13 in Northern Virginia? The lawyer fees in Chapter 13 are price controlled by the bankruptcy judges. In January 2026, they set the fee at $6817. My law firm charges half up front, and the rest out of the Chapter 13 payment you make...
In Chapter 13, you need to keep a chart of when you make your mortgage payment. Now that you have filed Chapter 13, you need to keep a monthly chart of your mortgage payments. Over five years missing a payment or two can be easy to do and lead to disaster. So start...
After you make your last payment to the Chapter 13 Trustee, it takes a couple months before your Chapter 13 is over and you get your discharge. There’s One or Two More Things You Have to Do Your Chapter 13 isn’t over and you can’t get your discharge unless you file...
Once up a time: Widow Anna saves her house and clears her debt with Chapter 13. Once up a time, an elderly widow named Anna needed to replace the HVAC in her townhouse. Her air conditioning broke down and she needed to fix it. Anna was poor. She had $1404 monthly...
Marian Saves Her House from Reverse Mortgage Foreclosure: She Filed Chapter 13 and Got Fairfax Senior Citizen Tax Relief Before her husband died, Marian had taken out a reverse mortgage on her home. That way, they hoped, she wouldn’t have a house payment and...
