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Insolvency Service “reframes” view of creditor – IPs can apply their discretion (UK)

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Maximizing your medical deductions

These often-overlooked write-offs can make your doctor's bills pay off at tax time.

Don't let taxes determine whether you refinance

Wondering whether to refinance your home? Don't let taxes come before these other factors.

4 strategies to save money at the gas pump

Fuel prices are rising as the summer driving season nears. Can you cut the cost of a fill-up?

What makes up the cost of a gallon of gas?

Figure out where your gas money goes by using industry data or by getting wonky on your own.

How to dump credit report debt that isn't yours

Set the record straight when your credit report lists accounts you don't have.

Pump it up: What fuels high gasoline prices?

Here's where all that money you pay at the pump goes.

The Stress Tests Themselves Are Untested

The Federal Reserve Board is engaging in a well-intentioned effort that is, sadly, still false science based on complex formulas unproven by rigorous validation.

When is Personal Bankruptcy Best for Your Finances?

At first glance, this title might seem surprising to you. After all, popular opinions about personal bankruptcy have made it out to be one of the worst things you can do to your finances. While this opinion may have developed out of reasonable

Losing Control: Court Rejects “Control Test” for Determining if Debtor Has Interest in Dividends it Paid

In Michaelson v. Farmer (In re Appleseed’s Intermediate Holdings, LLC), the United States District Court for the District of Delaware recently faced an atypical argument as to why an avoidance action should be dismissed. In Appleseed’s, the

Kodak Ka-Ching

Getty Images Monday marked the three-month anniversary of Eastman Kodak Co.’s Chapter 11 filing, so it’s about time for the imaging company’s attorneys and advisers to be calling for their first paychecks. Bankruptcy Beat has the fee requests—let’s

NYT: One Couple's Ordeal Against Credit-Card and Housing Debt

By TESS VIGELAND Seattle TWELVE-STEP programs often talk about the moment of clarity, when an addict starts to understand just how dire the situation has become. For Karawynn Long, 42, and Jak Koke, 47, it arrived in 2005, when they crossed the $40

Navigate The Marital Debt Thicket In Bankruptcy

Love and Marriage. Fries and Catsup. Chips and Dip. Like these famous pairings, divorce and bankruptcy are frequent companions. When a couple goes their separate ways, often the most substantial marital accumulation is debt. The questions we get as

MBA Report Shows Good Trends in Bad Numbers; BUT Judicial Foreclosure is a DRAG (I have questions)

Recently, the Mortgage Bankers Association published its “ National Delinquency Survey” for the fourth quarter of 2011. The report covers the delinquency and foreclosures rates on first-lien mortgage loans, and includes @ 88% of all single family

The Daily Docket: So Much Cash, So Few Deals

Years of a struggling economy have claimed another victim: distressed-debt investors who are raking billions of dollars of bankruptcy winnings off the table are casting about desperately for someplace to put the money to work. Read the Daily


The Law Of Collateral Estoppel: Bankruptcy Proof Your Judgment

Bill Rothschild of Ogier, Rothschild, Rosenfeld & Ellis-Monroe, P.C., has an article in the current issue of Calendar Call, a publication of the General Practice and Trial Section of the State Bar of Georgia, entitled "Bankruptcy-Proofing Your Law

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Can I Buy a New Car While In Chapter 13 Bankruptcy?

During the three to five years that you're making payment on your Chapter 13 bankruptcy, you can't take out any new debt without getting permission from the bankruptcy court. This provision is there to protect you from getting into further financial

Can I pay off my Chapter 13 early?

Often times debtors ask if it is possible to pay their chapter 13 plan off any earlier, either by making higher than scheduled monthly payments, or by one lump sum. If you are in a 100% plan, meaning that you are paying back all of your debts owed to

A Must Read on the Financial Crisis

Bethany McLean has a must-read article on Reuters about the role of the SEC's 2004 change in broker-dealer leverage requirements in the financial crisis. The article thoroughly debunks the argument that "the SEC did it" by loosening broker-dealer

Payday Loans Banned in Georgia? Not So Fast….

In 2004 the Georgia legislature passed legislation that was designed to outlaw “payday lending” – the practice of finance companies making high interest short term loans of a few hundred or a few thousand dollars. According to the Georgia Department