FILING BANKRUPTCY WHILE IN A DIVORCE CAN BE A TRAP
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- 1 FILING BANKRUPTCY WHILE IN A DIVORCE CAN BE A TRAP
- 2 Thieves Steal Identity and Money – IRS warning
- 3 Document Preparers or Paralegals Ripping Off Consumers
- 4 Discharge vs Automatic Stay and Credit Reporting
- 5 Tenants Facing Foreclosure Protected by New Federal Law
- 6 Dramatic Increase in Elderly Filing Bankruptcy
- 7 Arizona Supreme Court Gets It Right – Collection on Credit Card Debt
- 8 Navient’s Latest Student Loan Scam
- 9 National Credit Adjusters, LLC (NCA) & Hochstein Guilty of Consumer Fraud
- 10 THE PERILS OF BANKRUPTCY FILING BY AN UNDOCUMENTED PERSON
Whenever a divorce and bankruptcy come into play it is very complicated to determine which should be filed or completed before starting the other legal process. Even attorneys make mistakes. In the In re Kiley case the debtor’s failure to understand the law will lead to the loss of over $100,000 that may have been […]
Thieves Steal Identity and Money – IRS warning
IRS Tax Tip 2018-186 Don’t take the bait: Here’s how taxpayers can avoid getting caught by a phishing scam Data thieves don’t take a break during the holidays. In fact, the IRS warns taxpayers that the agency is seeing a large increase in bogus email schemes that seek to steal money or tax data.
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November 2018: The Arizona Supreme Court established a committee to review the current process authorizing documents preparers to do certain work normally done by attorneys. Administrative Order 2018-111 The following is part of a discussion by fellow attorneys who describe some very expensive mistakes created by document preparers or paralegals (the Arizona Supreme Court does […]
Discharge vs Automatic Stay and Credit Reporting
The Fair Credit Reporting Act “FCRA” and the Bankruptcy Code The Automatic Stay v. the Bankruptcy Discharge The Fair Credit Reporting Act “FCRA” and the Bankruptcy Code deal with debt differently and this difference can become confusing for everyone, including experienced bankruptcy attorneys. For instance, the legal status of a debt changes as a bankruptcy moves […]
Tenants Facing Foreclosure Protected by New Federal Law
Most Tenants Facing Foreclosure Now Have Some Protection, at Least for 90 Days On May 24, 2018 a permanent extension of the “Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act” (PTFA) was signed into federal law. The PTFA enables renters whose homes were in foreclosure to remain in their homes for at least 90 days or for the […]
Dramatic Increase in Elderly Filing Bankruptcy
The number of elderly filing for bankruptcy is three times what it was in 1991. As a study, from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, explains, elderly people whose finances are precarious have few places to turn. “When the costs of aging are off-loaded onto a population that simply does not have access to adequate resources, something has […]
Arizona Supreme Court Gets It Right – Collection on Credit Card Debt
Arizona Supreme Court Decides Statute of Limitations ON CREDIT CARD DEBT / ON INSTALLMENT DEBTS runs from the date of the first uncured missed payment. Mertola LLC v Alberto J Santos/Arlene Santos CV-17-0109-PR (AZ Supreme Court, 7-27-18) Statute of limitation for debt collection in Arizona – cause of action to collect the entire debt accrued as […]
California Attorney General files a lawsuit against Navient and subsidiaries, Pioneer and General Revenue Corp., alleging violation of California’s unfair competition and false advertising laws Misrepresenting the order in which the company would apply extra loan payments and failing to properly discharge federal student debt for borrowers with a total and permanent disability.
National Credit Adjusters, LLC (NCA) & Hochstein Guilty of Consumer Fraud
National Credit Adjusters, LLC and Bradley Hochstein admit to illegal consumer debt collection practices. Company and Its Former CEO Engaged In Illegal Debt Collection Practices (Reprint from CFPB announcement 7/13/18) The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) announced a settlement with National Credit Adjusters, LLC (NCA), a privately-held company headquartered in Hutchinson, Kansas, and its […]
THE PERILS OF BANKRUPTCY FILING BY AN UNDOCUMENTED PERSON
By Richard J. Parker: Shareholder in Parker, Butte, & Lane, P.C. (reprinted with permission of the author, December, 2017) Immigration status is a complex legal issue for anyone not born in the USA. While some people born overseas are still U.S. citizens at birth, there are some hoops to jump through that do not exist […]
