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Can filing bankruptcy help me get my driver’s license back? Maybe. First, it depends on why your driver’s license has been suspended or revoked.

In very recent years, Federal laws have been enacted to provide enhanced protection for certain exempt funds from Garnishment of your bank account.  It had become commonplace for banks, upon receiving a garnishment order from a judgment creditor (person or entity you owe), to freeze the account of the judgment debtor (you) without regard to whether the account contained exempt feder

It is commonly thought that arbitration benefits everyone since it prohibits someone from suing an entity (usually a corporation) for something that was allegedly done wrong.  The common refrain is that, if businesses can’t be sued for perceived misdeeds, then the result should be lower prices for the consumer.  Yeah, right. (Note: sarcasm).

When you file for Chapter 13 or Chapter 7 bankruptcy, you must list all of your creditors. While it is a requirement, it is also in your best interests to do so in order to take full advantage of your case.

The answer is no!  A motion for relief from the automatic stay is filed when a debtor falls behind on the post-petition payments on a direct paid debt.  A foreclosure can be stopped by the filing of a

Teresa Guidice is due to be released from prison in December 2015, but it may not be the happy homecoming she has been anticipating over the past year.  Although her attorney expressed his belief in the past that the Guidices were in no danger of losing their

The answer is maybe.

If you earn what the Social Security Administration (SSA) calls “substantial income” outside of your benefits, then you might have to pay taxes.

A bank levy is when a creditor has obtained a judgment against you for a debt and then serves that judgment on your bank.  The bank is then required to freeze all money not exempted and send those funds to the creditor.

If you are having financial difficulties and you are thinking that it might be time to consider filing a bankruptcy case, then it might just be time for you to do so. Do not make the mistake of thinking that filing a bankruptcy case on your own (or even with an attorney not familiar with bankruptcy law) is the way you should go.

In an average Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy case, the person filing the case typically will only need to appear in court one time.  That hearing is called a