Holly Gets Hired After Bankruptcy and Gets a New Company Credit Card Holly was at the end of her rope. She’d been out of work for two years; she kept getting interviews but no offers; and she was feeding partial payments to her creditors, to try to keep them off...
I hate it when people do illegal stuff to my customers. For a consumer bankruptcy lawyer, I’m litigious. I’m quick to sue. People in financial trouble can be magnets for illegal stuff. Fair Debt Collection Practices Act violations. Fair Credit Reporting...
For some people, Chapter 7 bankruptcy is the best way to stop foreclosure in Virginia. Some people think the only way to stop a foreclosure is a Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Mark and Tina Allen (not their real names) got a Virginia bankruptcy lawyer who thought that. When...
Can filing bankruptcy make you smarter? A new book, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, explains why filing bankruptcy can make you smarter about money. The book authors, Harvard Professor Sendhil Mullainatha and Princeton Professor Eldar Shafir,...
Many people who file bankruptcy are small business owners. Especially owners of one-person small businesses. People like the freedom of being their own boss, but it can be a tough way to make a living. A lot of those small businesses are set up as corporations or...
After bankruptcy: Is Donald Trump Embarrassed? Donald Trump’s casinos, Trump Entertainment Resorts, emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday, July 16 2010. This followed two previous bankruptcies by the Trump casinos. First in 1991 and again in 2004...
