Why You Should (Sometimes) Before Bankruptcy Ask for Arbitration The fine print in your credit card agreement likely gives you–and the...

If you are filing bankruptcy, Get Your Money Out of Wells Fargo. People filing bankruptcy get kicked when they are down, if they bank  at...

How a cheap car payment can help you on the bankruptcy means test. The 2005 Bankruptcy law, known BAPCPA or sometimes BARF, was designed...

Why do debt collectors keep calling me at work after I tell them to stop? The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act protects you from debt...

Debt Collector Chad Steur Law Refuses to Pay Up Chad Steur Law, LLC, a debt collector, owes my client, Helen, $2280.58. So far, Steur...

Global Client Solutions got $61.50 from C H and pays up $1500. C H, like many of my bankruptcy clients, tried to “settle” her debts...

Before she came to talk to me about bankruptcy, Ana was scammed out of $200 by Recovery Services. “Recovery Services” called Ana from...

Most income taxes cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, but some can. To find out whether yours can, your lawyer will need your tax account...

I was the third lawyer Lisa saw for a Virginia Bankruptcy Consultation Lisa had a Virginia Bankruptcy consultation with two well known...

Is it legal to get garnished under Virginia garnishment law in a county that you don’t live in any more? I’m a Virginia bankruptcy...

Getting Sued After Short Sale? Getting sued after a short sale is highly probable.  Saw three couples this month who needed to file...

How to Tell Your Bank to Stop Loan Automatic Withdrawals Stop those automatic withdrawals! I usually tell people that when we first talk....

Before bankruptcy, sometimes you need to borrow money from Mom.  You might want to borrow that money and put her on your car title. Now...

Last fall, Judge Robert Mayer, our bankruptcy judge in Alexandria, tossed out the bankruptcy of a guy for lying on his forms about the...

Before I became a bankruptcy lawyer, I thought that successful companies were generally pretty honest.  I would have guessed they were...

Around 100,000 people a year get arrested because they owe unpaid bills and ignore a court paper.  Does this happen in Virginia.  Yes!...

<h2>Before bankruptcy: Stopping automatic withdrawals</h2> While trying to avoid bankruptcy, people sometimes authorize debt collectors...

I’m a Virginia Bankruptcy Lawyer.   I talk to a lot of people in financial trouble.  I talk to a lot who are harassed by debt collectors....

“In bankruptcy, everything is upside down.  Bad is good; good is bad.”  I tell people that all the time. What does that mean? For the...

Before bankruptcy, I like to meet with you and go over your credit report.    The credit report I like best is at...