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When you file bankruptcy, you’re asking the court to discharge debt, or to arrange a manageable payment plan for you stretched over a period of time. Some of your creditors, on the other hand, would like to prove you’ve committed Read More

Bill Stanley, officer in the Scientech Club, passed along an interesting email he’d sent out to club members, testing their general knowledge of astronomy. The message asked readers to pinpoint what the following statements have in common: 1. The North Read More

With job loss being one of the three top causes of bankruptcy, I’m getting a lot of questions from my Indiana bankruptcy clients about getting hired for a new job with a bankruptcy on their record. I’ve been practicing bankruptcy Read More

As a bankruptcy lawyer in Indiana for the past quarter century, I continue to help clients with their financial problems and especially with filing bankruptcy. All too often (and this is even more prevalent in the past year or two), Read More

Bankruptcy and car repo problems seem to be intertwined. Once a bankruptcy petition is filed, the automatic stay prevents a car company from seizing your car. But, if the car has already been repossessed before the bankruptcy was official, some Read More

Bankruptcy, foreclosure, unemployment – all of these have captured headlines in recent months. One area of financial hardship I deal with every day, but one you don’t see much of in the press, is automobile repossessions. Make no mistake, though Read More

Payday loans are moving into better neighborhoods, but, believe me, they’re not any better an idea than they ever were. Elizabeth Warren, Harvard law professor who serves on the congressional panel for the U.S. financial bailout, agrees. "More middle class Read More

In Anderson, Indiana, where one of my four bankruptcy law offices is located, a new restaurant is opening, I hear, called Bickel’s Uptown Café. That’s a cheerful note for Anderson, which has been especially hard hit with the economic downturn Read More

No question about it – job loss is one of the main causes of bankruptcy. Indiana has had more than its share of employment upheavals, and that’s the reason I find it important, as a bankruptcy attorney in Indiana, to Read More

Business bankruptcies come in different shapes and sizes. An Associated Press article talked about the conditions attached to the loans our government is making to GM and Chrysler being very much like a restructuring typical of a bankruptcy, even though Read More

Back last summer, my banker friend in Portland, Oregon had told me about a young entrepreneur custom home builder. This gentleman, who’d been recognized in the press as owning one of the Top Ten Fastest Growing Companies in his area, Read More

"This is good, this is good", Associated Press quoted president O’Bama as saying, referring to the bill he just signed expanding health insurance for children. The State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, now covers approximately 7 million children. The Read More