Some debtors can, but others cannot, choose between the federal and state exemptions. That’s because of a major political compromise.
Supreme Court Decides that an Inherited IRA Is Not Protected from Creditors in Bankruptcy
An Individual Retirement Account no longer consists of “retirement funds” once it is transferred to a beneficiary. So it’s not exempt.
Older Americans Have the Worst “Student Loan Literacy”
Americans over 55 years old flunk the “student loan literacy” test. We have a generational divide in one of today’s biggest economic issues.
The First Evidence Is In: Student Loans ARE Hurting the Broader Economy
Student loan borrowers are now buying houses and cars less, and have worse credit, than less educated people without student loans.
Student Loan Debt Is Growing Astoundingly Fast
Credit card debt is almost the same as it was 10 years ago, vehicle debt is only modestly higher, but student loan debt is 4 TIMES as much.
Student Loan Delinquencies Are Skyrocketing
The delinquency rate has doubled in just 4 years, in 2012 alone increasing as fast as at the worst of the 2007-2008 mortgage crisis.
The Most Important Fine Print in This Week’s News on Student Loan Relief
The best way to improve how student loan borrowers are treated is to change the incentives for their loan servicers. That happened this week.
The New Expansion of the “Pay As You Earn” Cap on Student Loan Payments
The essential facts on the President’s action to allow 5 million more student loan borrowers to cap payments at 10% of their monthly income.
20 Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy
In so many often surprising ways, bankruptcy can fix your earlier mistakes, undo harms caused by creditors, and clear a better path forward.
The Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy: Keeping Your Leased Vehicle through Chapter 13
If you are not current on your leased vehicle but want to keep it, file a Chapter 13 case if you can’t bring the account current right away.
The Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy: Keeping Your Leased Vehicle through Chapter 7
If you are current on our leased vehicle, you can likely keep it in a Chapter 7 “straight bankruptcy.” If not current, you need Chapter 13.
The Extraordinary Tools of Bankruptcy: Getting Out of Your Vehicle Lease through Chapter 13
Chapter 7 gets you out of a vehicle lease quite cleanly. But if you have to file a Chapter 13 case for other reasons that can work, too.