Bankruptcy News and Articles

I'm a Maryland Bankruptcy Lawyer.  That's how I make my living.  It's how I feed my family and pay my bills.  In short, I make money because people pay me to...

Bankruptcy and Credit Scores One of the biggest concerns people express to me is that they have or more often, had, a great credit score, and they want it back...

Debt is poison.  It is slow attractive poison for a lot of people.  But debt is poison.  Debt lures you in with the TV you couldn't afford, the video game yo...

Co-signing is a very touchy subject.  For many who do it, they do not regret it.  But then, probably in a large percentage of cases, the co-signer lives to re...

One of the worst parts about dealing with debt is the hounding creditor calls.  They are almost constant for many people who come to see us.  These collectors...

Myths and urban legends abound on the internet.  It’s easy to take a picture and slap a factual claim on it.  Maybe it’s a wrongly attributed quotation, ...

  No one likes being the butt of a joke.  This week on a national bankruptcy email list, an order from 2006 was being circulated for the 2nd or 3rd time s...

- A Maryland Bankruptcy Lawyer's Perspective I frequently meet with clients who already know which chapter of bankruptcy they want to file under.  They've done...

I used to joke with colleagues that we needed to advertise fixing cheap bankruptcies.  This was a few years ago when the mortgage boom was still going strong a...

The Bankruptcy Trustee and the Pro Se Debtor, More Observations from a Baltimore Bankruptcy Lawyer Myths and urban legends abound on the internet.  It’s easy...