ABI Blog Exchange

How do you break upsetting financial news to a surviving spouse? Be honest.

For U.S. citizens, overseas assets present special tax challenges that require expert advice.

Stuck with a new mortgage servicer? Get used to it if you can't pay off your home loan.

Should you buy a used home when you could buy a newly built one for not much more?

Mortgage rates rise, and analysts warn that debt worries could raise them even higher.

Is pay-as-you-drive coverage right for you? If it is, you could save on your van insurance.

The Office of Financial Research is scheduled to impose a global identification system on the U.S. financial industry by July 15 unless bankers take the lead and get behind one of the trade group initiatives.

Recently, we wrote about the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Stern v.

With the midterm elections over, I am left to wonder: how will the new Congress help struggling Americans who face losing their home. I am not optimistic.

The mission: to convince Congress that Section 1322(b)(2) must be amended to allow struggling homeowners to modify the loans securing their principal residences. The challenge: coming up with ideas no one else has.

Recently, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reminded us why bankruptcy laws are not always fair… especially to those who are looking for employment.

Tomorrow at about 10:00 am will mark 20 years.  It was on December 7, 1990 that I was first sworn in as an attorney.   I remember being totally pumped the night before… knowing that when I went to bed tomorrow night, I would be the

Twenty years ago today I took the oath.  After four years of college, three years of law school, the bar exam, this was the day.  But as I mentioned yesterday, my ceremony was rather unremarkable and unmemorable.  And I’ve been thro

Chapter 7 debtors who have debt that is secured by property have a number of options, and among them is reaffirmation.

Are bankruptcy exemptions funny?  Perhaps only when Jake & I are talking about them. Law and Propaganda 7

I haven’t blogged in a while. And this one will be my last for now. I’ll tell you where I’m going and I tell you why.

I can understand how it might seem disrespectful to be attending a conference on a day when we should be celebrating the life of a civil rights leader. But it is also, I think, particularly fitting. Let me explain…

In this special Halloween episode of Law & Propaganda: Emergency chapter 13s, surgical procedures and other scary things. Law and Propaganda 5