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Client Horror Story Contains An Asset Of The Bankruptcy Estate

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Bankruptcy Practice

Do you recognize your client’s tale of woe with prior professionals or not-so-professionals as signs of an incipient asset? A new bankruptcy lawyer was telling me about his client’s dealings with a loan modification lawyer he called a fraudster.  That relationship  resulted in a near foreclosure on the client’s home while the prior lawyer was […]

Filed Under: Bankruptcy Practice Tagged With: assets, filing bankruptcy, property of the bankruptcy estate

Bankruptcy Exemption Mistakes Feed Trustee Coffers

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Exemptions

Bankruptcy lawyers who mess up claims of exemptions were the other target of the trustee’s attorney I spoke with earlier this week.  He rubbed his hands over attorneys who hadn’t collected enough information to understand the asset or who simply didn’t know that the homestead exemption didn’t apply to property other than the debtor’s residence. […]

Filed Under: Exemptions Tagged With: assets, bankruptcy exemptions, bankruptcy practice

Bankruptcy Exemptions: 10 Ways to Deal with Excess Cash

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Exemptions, Start Here

bankruptcy exemptions

Bankruptcy lawyers occasionally are confronted with the client with more cash, or other marketable assets, worth more than the available exemptions to protect them. And state exemption systems often protect the darndest things, like a mule and a plow.  A milk cow.  The family bible. Those aren’t the things most of us are striving to […]

Filed Under: Exemptions, Start Here Tagged With: assets, bankruptcy exemptions, bankruptcy planning, bankruptcy practice, bankruptcy skills, filing bankruptcy

Exemptions & Property of the Estate

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Exemptions, Start Here

sorting assets

Sometimes, as an inexperienced bankruptcy lawyer,  it’s hard to get your head around the idea that your client can have an asset of substantial value and not need to exempt it when filing bankruptcy. That’s because only property of the estate is potentially available to pay the client’s creditors in a bankruptcy, and some assets, […]

Filed Under: Exemptions, Start Here Tagged With: assets, bankruptcy, bankruptcy practice, exemptions, property of the bankruptcy estate

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