Bankruptcy Means Test Inflation Adjustment for Family of Two Goes the Wrong Way Budgeting food and clothes in the bankruptcy court for a family of two just got harder. According to the Justice Department (who gets them from the IRS, who gets them from the Bureau of...
Why Filing Bankruptcy Stops Payroll Garnishment: Virginia Law, Virginia Form I’m surprised a couple times each month by Virginia employers who don’t know that bankruptcy stops payroll garnishment. Some employers think they need to keep on garnishing, until...
If you are in Chapter 13, the vehicle operating budget you are allowed will be too small. That’s (almost) a mathematical certainty. Here’s why. The census bureau shows–no surprise–that people who are working spend on average double on...
Did you put off filing bankruptcy until after somebody got a judgment against you? Pre-bankruptcy judgments are liens on property you own before the bankruptcy. (Sometimes they can be removed; sometimes they can’t.) But they cannot put a lien on a house you...
People often ask me, what happens after bankruptcy if I . . . Get a big raise… Start a business… Get a big tax refund in future years… Become a reality star… Win the lottery… How does that affect my bankruptcy? I tell them the purpose...
“Angie” filed a bankruptcy a couple years ago with some other lawyer. Her bankruptcy was “dismissed.” She emailed me yesterday, looking for a lawyer she could “trust.” “I filed two years ago and my lawyer filed too early...
