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When I titled one of my earlier blogs Super-Rich Or Bankrupt – You Could Be Anybody, I wasn’t far off the mark. Sometimes I think about the way life’s reversals can change everything, at least for awhile, even for the Read More

Cook County in neighboring Illinois has an angry sheriff. Two weeks ago, Sheriff Tom Dart ordered his deputies to stop evicting people from foreclosed properties they didn’t own, “because many are renters who did nothing wrong”. Dart told an Associated Read More

No sooner had I finished sharing with my bankruptcy blog readers the welcome news about social security benefits going up 5.8% next year, I read about a man who got a whole lot more than a 5.8% increase out of Read More

Only last week, seniors got good news: social security benefits are set to go up 5.8% in 2009. The last time there was an increase that large was before I started my Indiana bankruptcy law practice almost twenty-five years ago! Read More

In my mailbox the other day, along with the bills and flyers, I found a mini-magazine from Trader Joe’s. This was no mere catalogue with pictures and prices, I discovered leafing through it, but a collection of stories about the Read More

Since each state has its own bankruptcy-related laws, most folks trying to find out if and how laws used in bankruptcy would work for them ask me about Indiana, and overlook federal law. As a long-time Indiana bankruptcy lawyer, I Read More

Together for better or worse, job markets and bankruptcy are joined at the hip. On the negative side, breadwinners’ job loss has always proven to be a main driver of bankruptcy, along with uninsured medical catastrophes and divorce. It’s no Read More

In my ongoing effort to bring the very best and most up-to-date advice to my Indiana bankruptcy clients, I read. I read a lot, and I read many different publications, everything from daily newspapers and news magazines, to bankruptcy publications, Read More

Between the time I spend meeting with clients in one or another of my four Indiana bankruptcy law offices, the time I spend in bankruptcy court representing those clients, the time spent teaching courses on bankruptcy, and time it takes Read More

Twelve states have laws making it illegal to secretly record a phone conversation without both parties’ permission; Indiana’s not one of those. In our state you’re allowed to record a conversation as long as one party gives consent. That one Read More

I’m certainly no rabid rap fan, but I do like true life tales of success after bankruptcy, and rapper MC Hammer has a great life tale to tell. (Hammer’s actually a fellow blogger, and he posts stories and videos about Read More

As an Indiana consumer bankruptcy specialist, I’ve been dealing with debt, twenty-plus years and tens of thousands of people worth of it. So, when I saw Indianapolis Business Journal managing editor Greg Andrews’ piece titled “Firms With Debt In Check Read More