Bankruptcy can protect your home from judgment liens. It can stop a lawsuit from becoming a judgment, and then a judgment lien. Judgment Liens Are Dangerous Our last blog post was about how filing bankruptcy can sometimes remove, or “avoid,” a judgment lien from your home. This is a great potential benefit of bankruptcy if a judgment lien has … Read More
Remove a Judgment Lien from Your Home
One great benefit of bankruptcy is the ability to remove a judgment lien from your home. It’s almost as helpful as writing off that debt. The Problem, and the Bankruptcy Solution Do you have a judgment lien on your home? If so, the debt on that judgment is secured by whatever equity you have in your home. The debt … Read More
Unexpected Benefit: Remove a Judgment Lien from the Title to Your Home
Usually you can’t change a secured debt into an unsecured one, even in bankruptcy. But you often CAN remove a judgment lien from your home. We’re on a series of blog posts about the powerful but less obvious benefits of bankruptcy. Bankruptcy can do much more than just give you immediate and long-term relief from your debts. Today we … Read More
Prevent Judgment Liens against Your Home with Chapter 7
Filing a Chapter 7 case buys you time and can permanently stop judgment liens from hitting your home. Recently we went through a list of ways Chapter 7 buys you time when dealing with debts affecting your home. Included was that filing a Chapter 7 case can “stop a lawsuit from turning into a judgment lien.” That judgment lien … Read More
Release a Judgment Lien from Your Home
Bankruptcy can do more than forever discharge your debts. It can undo some bad creditor actions, like a recorded judgment lien on your home.
Relief from Stay for Reasons other than Pursuing Collateral
Creditors sometimes have good reasons to ask for permission to finish resolving an ongoing dispute outside of bankruptcy court.
Removing a Judgment Lien from the Title to Your Home
The potential ability to get rid of judgment liens from your home’s title is an impressive benefit of bankruptcy.
Stopping a Judgment Lien from Hitting Your Home
Letting a creditor get a judgment against you is dangerous, for a lot of reasons. One of the biggest dangers is a judgment lien on your home.
New Year Resolution #6: Face Lawsuits and Judgments – Current and Future Ones
You’ve been sued by one or more creditors. They have a judgment or are about to get one. You can stop them from garnishing your paycheck.