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Purpose of Bankruptcy 341 Hearings

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

All Debtors that file bankruptcy must attend a 341 hearing. The 341 hearing is also commonly referred to as Meeting of Creditors. The name can be deceiving because rarely do creditors show up for the meeting.
The Debtor must provide the Trustee with his Social Security card and a Driver’s License. If for [...]

Surrendering Property when Filing Bankruptcy

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Debtors that file bankruptcy and decide to surrender something often times will ask how long they have until the car is picked up or until their house is foreclosed on. The answer varies depending on if they file a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 and if it is a house or a car.
If a [...]

Informing Clients during the Bankruptcy Process

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Working in a law office, you come to rely on all the people around you. If one person fails to do their job correctly, it dominoes and causes everybody else to not be able to do their job properly or more work for somebody else.
In bankruptcy, there is a process that our office uses, [...]

New Auto Blues and Motion to Incur Debt

Friday, July 13th, 2007

While in active Chapter 13 bankruptcy, you are required to file a Motion to Incur Debt before you can purchase a vehicle. It is very important that you are in need of purchasing another auto because the Chapter 13 Trustee will require justified reason for purchase. Being bored with current vehicle and just wanted to [...]

Documents to prepare paperwork for filing

Friday, July 13th, 2007

There is so much paperwork that is needed to get a case filed. For this reason we have an appointment for our Debtors to come in and go over the paperwork to ensure we have everything we need. It is wonderful when the Debtors actually understand that we need all of this paperwork [...]

Confirming Appointments when Filing Bankruptcy

Friday, July 13th, 2007

It is important to confirm your upcoming appointments, whether it is for an initial consultation, bringing paper work back in or for a signing appointment. The reason why it is important, you will see that your success rate of completing a case is much higher than if you were not to confirm an appointment. [...]

Putting questions in writing.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

I get many complaints from clients that insist they don’t have access to fax or computer to submit thier questions in writing. Our office accepts questions via 1st class mail and this would be considered a form of submitting a question in writing.
The reason your attorney’s office request questions in writing to allow time for [...]

Motion to Lift Stay Hearing

Monday, May 21st, 2007

When a Debtor falls behind on the house payment or car payment, the creditor will file a Motion to Lift the Automatic Stay. This is usually done when the Debtor is behind 45-60 days. The motion allows the Debtor (through the attorney) to file a response to the motion and attend a hearing.
Most [...]

Filing Process for Bankruptcy

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

I was talking with another attorney yesterday and we were discussing ways to try and get our clients to be more proactive in their bankruptcy cases. In our office, the Debtors have three different appointments. Each appointment is necessary before the Debtor can move on to the next.
The first appointment is the initial [...]

Why is it important to make IO payments?

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

The importance of making IO payments prevent your case from getting dismissed. The reason why you signed an IO to begin with is because you fell behind with your trustee payments and to prevent the case from getting dismissed you signed an IO to make those payments up. The problem you have with [...]

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