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Getting a better handle on your household finances and the amount of debt you are shouldering is a great way to gain peace of mind and achieve financial stability in 2020 and beyond. These tips will help those looking to...

It’s not unusual for us to meet with individuals whose financial condition is best described as land rich, but cash poor. These are usually people who have lived in their home long enough to have built up significant equity but...

There have been reports of recent collection phone call scams targeting NC. Lawyers Mutual has provided some helpful information regarding this scam. We would like to first confirm that. This firm (Sasser Law Firm) DOES NOT collect debt via phone call. If you receive a phone...

To discharge your student loans in bankruptcy, you pretty much have to be in a coma. That’s not the technical rule, of course, but it certainly feels that way sometimes. As a result, when attorneys who represent debtors talk about...

Attorney Cort Walker interviewed for WRAL TV story on allegations that WakeMed violated Bankruptcy Rule requiring redaction of certain sensitive information. Read the full Article here.

Yesterday, the U.S. Courts issued a press release describing a scam where individuals receive a phone call from someone posing as their bankruptcy attorney, demanding payment to satisfy a debt. What makes these calls particularly convincing is that the caller-id...

Last week The Wall Street Journal ran an article about a tussel between rival museums, one in Japan and one in New York, dedicated to preserving the work of Japanese-American sculptor, Isamu Noguchi. Each museum appears to be jostling for prestige as well as...

I don’t know what sorts of news outlets you subscribe to, but around here this week, we were inundated with reports of President Obama instructing his administration (somewhat vaguely, it seems) to look into tweaking the bankruptcy code to do...

Here is how a bankruptcy liquidation is supposed to work: a trustee sells a debtor’s non-exempt assets and distributes the proceeds to the debtor’s creditors based on the order of priority set forth in the bankruptcy code. It makes sense...

A recent opinion issued on June 6, 2014 from the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina found that a creditor had not violated the bankruptcy code based on the following facts: In March 2008 a creditor realized...