“You mean to tell me you don’t have any underwear!” When I was much younger, I practiced bankruptcy law in Baltimore City. Judge Kiser, the bankruptcy judge, made people inventory their underwear. Today, the bankruptcy court in Alexandria...
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...
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...
Stress May Be Your Heart’s Worst Enemy That’s a headline in today’s New York Times. I pass that on because as a bankruptcy lawyer I see people defeated by the stress of debt’s they can’t pay. Good people go for years dragging around bad...
Hold on to the Nickel until the Buffalo Squeals They stopped making the Buffalo nickel in 1938, long before I was born. But I saw plenty of them when I was young. I also heard plenty about them from older folks who had lived through the Depression. “Hold on to the...
Another Fairfax County Family Wastes Thousands with Freedom Debt Relief. I filed a bankruptcy case this week for Alexander and Alina yesterday. They had been enrolled with Freedom Debt Relief for over five years–the longest enrollment I ever heard of. And...
