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People get excited about the prospect of cramming down mortgages on investment properties in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy. I received at least two calls this past week from people interested in using Chapter 13 to both strip a second mortgage...
This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, “Real Housewives” invade the news, Stan Lee Media wants all the action on Conan the Barbarian, and Lenny Dykstra gets battered with indecent-exposure charges.
In May, we posted a three-part series (part I, part II, part III) on the legal quagmire surrounding Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.
For those of you on the West Coast and others who are not obssessing about the huricane, I give you some further thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision in Stern v. Marshall, this time in the context of the Inkeeper's chapter 11 case.
The Secretary of State Department of Corporations is closing at 12:00 EST as Delaware has declared a state of emergency due to hurricane Irene. Our office in Delaware will remain open until 2:00 PM EST (11:00 a.m. PST). Due to...
One key reason is that the Department of Veteran Affairs is servicing the loans itself, instead of outsourcing it to others.
When is a judgment in a bankruptcy appeal final and, consequently, reviewable by a federal circuit court of appeals? Finality in bankruptcy litigation is often difficult to determine.
A federal appeals court has reinstated sanctions against a New Jersey law firm and attorney for attempting to foreclose on a suburban Philadelphia couple using “robo-produced” mortgage data that was fraught with errors.
Blog writer Katie Porter has written an interesting article about how the uscourts.gov website “promotes” Chapter 13 as a preferable choice for bankruptcy.
All caught up... Below are my next 54 bankruptcy case tweets of August 2011 a
The U.S. economy needs a stimulus. Many American households would be better served by filing bankruptcy to free-up some income to support their family, rather than waiting for Congress of the banks to help move us forward.
With condo prices dropping 25 percent nationwide, how do you know you're getting a good deal?