Your debts can be “secured,” “priority,” or “general unsecured.” How bankruptcy treats your debts depends on which kind they are.
Chapter 7 vs. Chapter 13–Assets Encumbered by Liens
Some of the assets you may want to protect in a bankruptcy case are those that are security for debts.
Avoid Surrendering Your Vehicle or Getting it Repossessed
Bankruptcy can save your truck or vehicle various ways. Enable you to pay for it by wiping out other debts. Or even by paying less for it.
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: How Secured Debts are Treated in a Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy”
Bankruptcy pays a lot of attention to and can help you deal with your secured debts in many favorable ways.
How Bankruptcy Helps With a Recorded Income Tax Lien that Is Fully Secured by Your Assets
A tax lien may attach to assets worth more than the amount of the underlying tax. That could make either a small or a huge difference.
The Basics: Collateral Other Than Your Home or Vehicle
If you owe a debt secured by your personal property–furniture, appliances,computers–here’s what bankruptcy can do with these debts.
Chapter 7 vs. Chapter 13–Dealing with Furniture, Appliances, and Electronics
What happens to the furniture, computer and such that you owe money on? Can they be protected under both Chapters?
A Chapter 7 “Straight Bankruptcy” Can . . . Help You Deal with Secured Debts from Your Closed Business
Chapter 7 puts you in the driver’s seat to either keep or surrender the collateral securing your business debts.
Attacking Your Debts with Chapter 7 vs. with Chapter 13
Chapter 7 deals with some debts better than does Chapter 13. But Chapter 13 deals with some other debts better than Chapter 7. So what kind of debts do you have?
The Chapter 13 Debt Limits
Too much debt can disqualify you from filing under Chapter 13.
I Make Too Much for Chapter 7, Owe Too Much for Chapter 13, So Now What Do I Do?
If you don’t qualify for either Chapter 7 or 13, do you have to do a very expensive Chapter 11 reorganization? Or could you still qualify after all?
Advantages of Chapter 13 After Stopping Repossession of Your Car or Truck
Straight Chapter 7 bankruptcy gives very limited help if you’re behind on your vehicle and need to keep it. And Chapter 13? Provides much more help.
Worried about Getting Your Car or Truck Repo’d? How Bankruptcy Could Help
Bankruptcy stops a vehicle repo from happening. But what then?
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