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Exemption Choices for the Recently Mobile

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

bankruptcy exemptions

Old and new consumer bankruptcy lawyers have a treasure in John Bates’ masterpiece on the exemption laws of each state and the availability of those laws to non residents in bankruptcy. Why do I care what the exemptions are in any state but California?  The Bankruptcy Code! ( what other answer did you expect from […]

Filed Under: Exemptions, Start Here Tagged With: bankruptcy practice, exemptions, learn bankruptcy law

When To File Bankruptcy

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Before filing, Start Here

bankruptcy timing

When to file bankruptcy turns out to be just as important as whether to file. I saw it playing out in a single day in my office. All three consultations on Friday featured clients intent on filing bankruptcy IMMEDIATELY. Each of them was  certain that they had no time before some disaster would befall them […]

Filed Under: Before filing, Start Here Tagged With: bankruptcy practice, client intake, collectors, counseling clients, payment default

Answer to Every Question Starts in the Code

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Bankruptcy Practice, Start Here

Bankruptcy Code

If Jews, Muslims, and Christians are People of the Book, we, as bankruptcy lawyers, are, or ought to be,  People of the Code, the Bankruptcy Code. Virtually every question that a new bankruptcy lawyer asks ought to send her first to the code for a start. The Bankruptcy Code adopted in 1978, was well thought […]

Filed Under: Bankruptcy Practice, Start Here Tagged With: bankruptcy practice, consumer bankruptcy law

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

Track Down All The Client’s Creditors

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Bankruptcy Practice, Start Here

creditors

While a new client may seek out a bankruptcy lawyer when they are served with a lawsuit, they may overlook the plaintiff in that very  suit when listing their creditors. Pretty amazing, but if you rely on the client to identify their creditors, their list will often omit creditors who didn’t send them a bill […]

Filed Under: Bankruptcy Practice, Start Here Tagged With: bankruptcy practice, creditors, new bankruptcy lawyer

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