Articles About Bankruptcy
News & Information About Bankruptcy in Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver, Portland & Salem
Bankruptcy Fees
Bankruptcy laws were created to be a tool for debt relief available for people with financial problems who are insolvent and unable to pay the debts to their creditors. Declaring bankruptcy is as not as easy as it sounds. There are a number of factors to consider. An important [...]
Washington Bankruptcy in a Nutshell
Credit card companies may tell you that you’ll only go bankrupt if you lose control over your spending and misuse your credit card, but this is not true. Bankruptcy lawyers will tell you that their clients who have filed bankruptcy cases with bankruptcy courts have done so for various [...]
Chapter 7 No-Asset Cases
There are different types of bankruptcy presented in the bankruptcy code. If you want to petition for personal bankruptcy, you would likely file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 or Chapter 13. Chapter 7 involves liquidation, while Chapter 13 involves debt reorganization. Debtors who file under the liquidation bankruptcy chapter [...]
Bankruptcy Automatic Stay in Oregon
Filing for Chapter 7, 11, or 13 bankruptcy triggers an injunction called “automatic stay.” It essentially protects debtors from persistent collection efforts from creditors and other collection agencies. Once an automatic stay is in effect, all debt collection efforts must stop at once. If you filed for bankruptcy, it [...]
Preparing Bankruptcy Information
How do I prepare for bankruptcy? If you have serious financial problems and want to get out of debt, you may need to petition for bankruptcy. There are some things you have to do before filing your bankruptcy petition in order to harness the bankruptcy process in an optimal way. [...]
Preparing for Bankruptcy in Oregon
Bogged by financial problems, debtors in Oregon count on the bankruptcy protection that filers get upon filing a petition for bankruptcy. The automatic stay is something that they look forward to. It’s an injunction that takes effect upon the bankruptcy filing and it puts a halt on all debt [...]
