News & Blog Updates

I’m always clipping articles on money matters, because – well, my entire professional life as a consumer bankruptcy specialist and bankruptcy attorney in Indiana centers around helping my clients deal with money issues. The other day, looking through the stock Read More

A couple of months ago, I shared some thoughts with you on a bill that was being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives, called HR 3609, or the “Mortgage Modification Bill.” The essence of this bill is to allow Read More

Hope Now, as you may recall from one of my earlier blogs, is the name of a less than one-year-old alliance formed among credit counseling agencies, lending institutions, mortgage security investors, trade associations, and loan servicing companies that deal in Read More

Zach, one of the readers of my blog, asks about student loans that are not government-backed, and whether bankruptcy can be a help with those loans from private lenders. Unfortunately the answer is still a big N.O.. Back in 2005, Read More

Prices for necessities such as gasoline, food, clothing, and medical care may be going up. Headlines may scream about home foreclosures and bankruptcies. Mastercard may report on people using credit cards to pay for everyday needs rather than for luxuries. Read More

Newsweek calls Will Smith “the most powerful actor on the planet” and “The $4 Billion Man”. Smith, one of a very small number of people who have been successful in three major entertainment media (music, film, and television), is also Read More

I caught a not-very-cheerful Reuters’ news item the other day. Human resource giant Career Protection, Inc. predicts a 37% increase in companies planning layoffs and RIFs (Reductions In Force) for 2008, as compared with last year. The one bright spot Read More

The cheerful song heard at Disney theme parks, “It’s A Small, Small World” proved sadly true last week. Chrysler cancelled its contracts with its longtime supplier of plastic parts, Plastech, forcing that company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Read More

Bankruptcies and foreclosures are the stuff of headlines nowadays, and, as a bankruptcy attorney in Indiana, I find it hard to go anywhere without lots of people airing their opinions to me about how other people get into financial trouble Read More

In last week’s Indianapolis Business Journal, I found a very interesting article by neurologist, educator, and former financial planner Shirley Mueller. As a bankruptcy attorney in Indiana who deals day in, day out with people’s money and their emotions, I Read More

Personal and business matters are intertwined for most small business owners, I find. The owners, and in many cases their family members along with them, live and breathe the business. As a bankruptcy lawyer in Indianapolis and ithree other Indiana Read More

Job loss is one of the main causes of bankruptcy in Indiana, as I well know from the personal stories I hear in my bankruptcy law offices in Indiana. Last week, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce released a report that Read More