• When Mortgage Lenders Monkey With Your Loan By Bill Purdy The following are some excerpts from a very informative blog on a well-known consumer bankruptcy advocate’s web site: www.BankruptcySoapBox.com. Spoiler Alert:  As a borrower, you [...]

  • A typical story of a homeowner and the con artist scum who prey on desperate homeowners:   Innocent homeowner caught in bankruptcy scam “I tried to keep my home despite the fact they started foreclosure [...]

  • Published On: June 22, 2017

    Wells Fargo modified mortgage terms for people who had filed bankruptcy without obtaining a court order. According to an article in USA Today “Wells Fargo faces new accusations that it tried to capitalize financially on [...]

  • US Supreme Court May 15, 2017: Resolving a split of circuits, the Supreme Court held 5/3 in Midland Funding LLC v. Johnson  6-348 (Sup. Ct. May 15, 2017) that a debt collector who [...]

  • As an Arizona attorney with more than 25 years experience in bankruptcy and foreclosure I see people making desperate economic decisions they later regret. I deal with this behavior by mumbling under my breath (and [...]

  • Published On: November 3, 2014

    Filed for bankruptcy? Need a new home? You may be eligible to finance a new home. Each lender or mortgage insurance company has rules governing financing after a bankruptcy. These rules change regularly so never [...]

  • Published On: September 30, 2014

    Are your Wages being garnished? The sooner you take action the better. Talk to an experienced bankruptcy attorney. The other day a caller said "I used a document preparer or bankruptcy petition preparer. Certainly they [...]

  • Predatory auto lenders have long preyed on low-income consumers falsifying the borrower’s income information without any regard to the borrower’s ability to pay the loan. The other day a caller said "I used a document [...]

  • The District Court ruled inherited IRAs are exempt because they retain their character as retirement funds, but the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed that ruling. With this off the question went [...]

  • Creditors want Jacoby & Meyers forced into chapter 7 bankruptcy. According to the Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2014 - creditors of Jacoby & Meyers bankruptcy firm are very unhappy because the dissolved firm is [...]