News & Blog Updates

A banker friend from Portland, Oregon who specializes in working with builders shared with me a sad (and all too familiar-sounding) bankruptcy story… A young entrepreneur began his career building one or two homes each year. His unique homebulding style Read More

When a person gets behind in paying debts, creditors begin to take action. And, when that happens, as I’ve warned many times in earlier bankruptcy blogs, it’s time for the debtor to take action, too. Telephone calls at home and Read More

As a bankruptcy lawyer with one of my four Indiana offices located in the city of Anderson, I’m always alert for news affecting that town. Anderson has been particularly hard hit by the General Motors pullout, which began in the Read More

In my bankruptcy blogs, I like to keep readers up to date on business news, particularly as it relates to the job situation in our state. As a bankruptcy attorney in Indiana for close to 25 years, I know “the Read More

Small businesses hit by the record flooding in our state may be at risk for insolvency. In my earlier bankruptcy blog, Floods Of Trouble Can Cause Bankruptcies In Indiana, I explained that, if a business is structured as a corporation Read More

Bankruptcy’s in the news – again, but this time it’s not the usual individual or small business involved with bankruptcy court. And it’s not one of the big manufacturing companies, either. I’ve been reading about two cities, Vallejo, California, and Read More

You might imagine that I, as a consumer bankruptcy specialist in Indiana, spend most of my time involved in bankruptcy court. But a good part of my work with clients involves foreclosure issues. Often I’m helping to negotiate settlements between Read More

Just last month, the Pew Charitable Trust announced a new project. The goal – to promote bank accounts for moderate-to-low income households. Pew wants to help new, young depositors get started in banking, as well as people who’ve had trouble Read More

With one of my four Indiana bankruptcy law offices located in Columbus, I’m keeping a very close eye on news about the awful flooding there. In earlier blogs I observed that, for families and individuals financially squeezed by job layoffs, Read More

Since one of my Indiana bankruptcy law offices is located in Bloomington, I was particularly interested to read an Indianapolis Star editorial by Nate Feltman, Indiana Secretary of Commerce about the Cook Pharmica company centered in Bloomington. Cook, a biotechnology Read More

It’s true: the most important chapter of any bankruptcy story is the sequel! As an Indiana bankruptcy lawyer who’s helped “write” tens of thousands of such sequels over a period of almost twenty-five years, I can tell you about them. Read More

In my earlier blog, In Bankruptcy, Forgiveness Means More Than Discharging Debt, I talked about the technical meaning of forgiveness in bankruptcy and in tax law, versus the kinds of human forgiveness that are so needed in order to families Read More