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Truthfully, I want to write about divorce, bankruptcy, and estate planning because we’re in a pandemic, and a lot of people are anxious and stressing out. They don’t understand what’s going on, no one really does. But, as a society, we like to have answers. As such, when you don’t have answers, you start to go crazy. And when all-of-a-sudden…
When you choose to ignore a problem it typically doesn’t just go away and often gets worse. Many of my bankruptcy clients bury their heads in the sand because they are hoping and praying their financial situation will get better. As human beings, when we are not ready to face a problem, we think it’ll go away on its own.…
Before I became a grandma, I’d still tell people when they were divorcing to please think about their kids. I will not take cases where either parent is saying, “No, I don’t want the other parent to have any custody,” unless there is some reason, like alcoholism, violence, or a drug addiction. But, if either party is just being spiteful,…
Alimony and spousal support or any type of support is the same, and it is potentially awarded to the spouse with less income from the higher earner. There is a software program called a Dissomaster or an X-spouse that calculates an amount. To calculate the amount, you plug in the income, health care, and certain deductions. It really is that…
The Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 4) includes Bankruptcy. Therefore, United States Bankruptcy Law has been around for more than 200+ years. Virtually every industrialized country in the world has the option of filing bankruptcy as a method of financial relief. The earliest mention of bankruptcy is in the Old Testament, Book of Deuteronomy 15:1-2: “At the end of…
If you have filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy case and you are struggling to make your plan payments, you may want to consider converting your case to a Chapter 7. The conversion procedure is usually simple – your lawyer files a Notice of Conversion and pays any required fees. Once this is accomplished, your case will be converted to a…