The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the foreclosure crisis that has gripped Spain has led to two high profile suicides. Spain’s twenty five percent unemployment rate has left many people unable to make their mortgage payments. A former politician from Barakaldo, Spain, threw herself out of a fourth floor window because of her distress […]
Title Pawning Loans As a Georgia bankruptcy attorney, I hate title pawning loans. Title pawning loans and Chapter 13 bankruptcy can be a little bit tricky because some potential clients will lose all of their ownership interest in their vehicle before a case can be filed to protect them. For example, let’s say you have […]
Since Halloween is just around the corner, I thought this might be a good time for me write about a possible Chapter 13 horror story. Chapter 13 plans typically run for about three to five years. During this time, it is possible that you or your spouse may lose their job. In almost every Chapter […]
Some buildings in Georgia are in such bad shape that it makes more sense to tear them down and completely rebuild from the ground up rather than trying to make repairs. In the same way, many Georgia consumers are in such bad shape financially that it makes the most sense to go ahead and file […]
As a general rule, you cannot add any debt that has been incurred after the filing of a Chapter 13 to a case. A person who goes out and buys a car while being in an active bankruptcy case is going to get into some serious hot water. Taking out loans from local finance companies […]
The Rome News Tribune recently ran an article describing the economic mess in Dalton, Georgia. Dalton has been known as the “Carpet Capital” of the world. The newspaper reports that Dalton has “lost more jobs per capita than any other in the U.S.” It doesn’t get any worse than this. Four thousand six hundred jobs […]
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