Wells Fargo Bank has admitted to opening millions of customer accounts and credit card accounts without customer authorization since 2005. Stories have emerged of a bank gone wild where employees working in an intense sales culture felt pressured to open new accounts to meet sales quotas.
Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $185 million in
The most famous name in the getting out of debt industry is Dave Ramsey. As a young man Dave himself was in a pile of debt and wound up filing bankruptcy. The pain of that experience lead him on a quest to learn about personal finance and he began a career in advising others how
There is a lot of chatter going on among Nebraska bankruptcy attorneys about reports of court hearings where debtors are being told they can keep a car even if they choose not to reaffirm the car loan as long as payments are kept current.
That’s news to me and many of my colleagues. The Bankruptcy
Nebraska is the 16th biggest state in the USA, but we rank 43rd in population density. In fact, Nebraska has more cows than people by a ratio of 3 to 1.
Bankruptcy is a specialized area of laws these days, especially after enactment of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005. Attorneys in sparsely populated areas
A few weeks ago I wrote an article to warn plaintiff attorneys to be careful to ensure that their clients who have previously filed bankruptcy to ensure that all claims they have against third parties are reported on the bankruptcy schedules. (Plaintiff’s Attorneys Beware: Your Client’s Bankruptcy Case is About to Sock You Right
The more I think about the disastrous consequences of two recent 8th Circuit Court of Appeals decisions regarding Judicial Estoppel the more alarmed I become.
This is a time bomb waiting to go off. The 8th Circuit has ruled that debtors who fail to amend bankruptcy schedules to report claims against third parties that occur
What is the most effective solution to a serious debt problem? Without a doubt, Chapter 7 remains the single most effective way to eliminate debt. What is the success rate of chapter 7 cases?
In reviewing 172 cases filed by our firm since January 1, 2014, clients received a discharge in all but three cases.
Ten years ago this month the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) became effective. The act was designed to make filing bankruptcy more difficult by requiring filers to provide more information to court trustees that supervise the process and by installing a mathematical formula to keep higher income debtors out of chapter 7.
I still remember being in the bankruptcy meeting room waiting for my client’s turn to see the Chapter 7 Trustee. What I saw was a classic mistake made by young and inexperienced bankruptcy attorneys.
Trustee: So how long have you owned the painting supply business?
Debtor: About 8 years.
Trustee: I see that you rent
Medical debts account for nearly 62% of all bankruptcy cases filed according to a Harvard study. The actual number may be even higher since medical debts turn into credit card debts and mortgage debts as people try to pay off debt collectors. Although some medical debts are incurred when a person is temporarily uninsured,