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Small business owners sometimes seek my advice without bankruptcy being the topic of our discussion. In some cases, bankruptcy’s been a part of their past with some other business they’ve owned. They know bankruptcy law has changed, and want to Read More

Timing is everything, they say, and as a bankruptcy lawyer in Columbus, Indiana, I found that statement especially true earlier this month. Second only to a home threatened by foreclosure, and in some cases even more important, an automobile is Read More

Earlier this month, in my Indiana bankruptcy blogs, I’d written about some positive job developments I was seeing around the state of Indiana (see Indiana Bankruptcy Attorney Glimpses Good News In The Indiana Jobs Pipeline and It’s Holiday Time, With Read More

Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? When it comes to divorce and bankruptcy, even though I’ve been a bankruptcy attorney for almost twenty-five years, I’m not sure I know the answer. Divorce, as I’ve mentioned in earlier blogs, Read More

Every week, as I deal with tens of people, helping them handle debt problems and guiding them through the process of using the bankruptcy safety net for relief, I’m struck by the irony of the situation. One of the largest Read More

I see tracking business and job statistics in the state of Indiana as an important part of my work as an Indiana bankruptcy lawyer. I need to know what the opportunities – and the challenges – are going to be Read More

The Treasury Department’s working on a plan to reduce mortgage rates on home loans to 4 ½%. The plan would involve the government buying more mortgage-backed securities, according to a recent Reuters report. Since Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Read More

The number of bankruptcies in Indiana has risen dramatically, and I was one of two attorneys interviewed for the report “Indiana Bankruptcies Soar” in the December 1-7 issue of the Indianapolis Business Journal. As I explained in my earlier blog Read More

In this Indiana bankruptcy blog, I’ve been using the bankruptcy of ATA Airlines to demonstrate an important fact: bankruptcy is a process, not a one-time event. The ATA bankruptcy story actually began years ago, when FedEx decided not to use Read More

Every week or so, in my Indiana bankruptcy blog, I try to include news about the job markets in our state. With bankruptcy law offices in 38 counties around Indiana, I am always alert for both good and bad news Read More

Back in early summer, when home foreclosures were already escalating at alarming rates and a new term, “foreclosure pets” was starting to appear in news stories, I wrote about the sad consequences of foreclosures for many family pets (see Food Read More

The other day a gentleman who’d read my bankruptcy blog about veterans’ benefits shared with me that he was being sued over medical bills, asking whether filing bankruptcy could help him avoid going to court over those bills. My work Read More