If you have a Chapter 7 asset case, your bankruptcy trustee collects and sells your asset and pays your priority debt with the proceeds. Our last blog post was about what happens to priority debts in a no-asset Chapter 7 case. Most consumer “straight bankruptcy” Chapter 7 cases are no-asset ones. This means that the bankruptcy trustee does not … Read More
Unexpected Benefit: Negotiate Out of a Preference Mess
Your lawyer can likely negotiate with your Chapter 7 trustee to prevent the forced repayment of your prior payment to a relative or friend. Our blog post two weeks ago introduced an uncomfortable problem: preference payments to a friendly creditor. (Please read that blog post before reading this one.) Then last week we discussed two possible solutions to this … Read More
The 5 Essentials about Protecting Your Property with Exemptions
Most of the time you get to keep everything you own when you file bankruptcy. It’s all covered by property exemptions. But not always.
Avoiding the “Preference” Headache
Prevent your trustee from giving you a big headache if you paid a debt to a friend or relative during the year before filing bankruptcy.