News & Blog Updates

In response to an earlier bankruptcy blog of mine on the subject of payday loans (Who’s Really Getting Paid On Payday Loans? ) several readers were quite indignant. The convenience of being able to get cash later at night after Read More

Bankruptcy, I’ve reflected more than once, represents the ultimate in compromise. Different parties with different needs share a dilemma. Any compromise will never be 100% good for all the parties. I like to refer to the Indiana bankruptcy court system Read More

Personal bankruptcies almost always fall into one of two categories – Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. As I know from having helped write the latest version of Indiana bankruptcy exemption law, these two types are, in a way, like the Read More

Visa and Mastercard aren’t unhappy with their revenue, but the source of that revenue seems to be shifting. Debit card use is growing faster than credit use, both giant companies report. Since my work as an Indiana bankruptcy attorney deals Read More

Always on the alert for good news about jobs in Indiana, I was happy to read about three developments in Indianapolis and neighboring Plainfield. After almost twenty-five years of helping clients through the process of filing bankruptcy and then through Read More

Foreclosures have been featured a lot in the news lately. In one of my very earliest bankruptcy blogs, Dis Or Dat? Foreclosure Or Bankruptcy?, I pointed out that there is no “one size fits all” solution, and that designing exactly Read More

Foreclosure pets, foreclosure fires, and now, foreclosure weeds – is there no end to the devastation brought about by home foreclosures? As a consumer bankruptcy specialist in Indiana, I’ve been dealing with bankruptcy and foreclosure issues for decades, but I Read More

An Arizona company owns Tuchman Cleaners now, but most people around Indianapolis still think of the dry cleaning chain as a native son. I know I do. Tuchman has been laundering and dry cleaning clothes here for more than sixty Read More

In my earlier bankruptcy blog, Affordable Housing At Mapleton Park, I highlighted an affordable housing project in the Fall Creek area of Indianapolis. I explained that, as a bankruptcy lawyer in Indiana, I take an interest in all news that Read More

In one of my earlier blogs, Money And Emotion Mixed In Bankruptcy, I discussed the fact that, in the course of almost twenty-five years guiding people through the bankruptcy court process, I’ve learned that debtors tend to have a lot Read More

One of my earliest blogs, I Never Thought I’d Be Here, got its name from the six-word statement I and my colleagues hear so often in our law offices around the state of Indiana. If Fannie and Freddie were people, Read More

Part of the bankruptcy court process with which I have been dealing for the past twenty-plus years involves auctions. People usually associate auctions with estates, but often a bankruptcy trustee will convert assets into cash to pay creditors by holding Read More