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How Does Your Bankruptcy Affect the Filing of Your Tax Returns?
People who are over their heads in debt and considering bankruptcy have a number of decisions to make regarding bankruptcy and taxes. As bankruptcy attorneys, we often hear questions from clients like does bankruptcy affect tax return? And how bankruptcy will…
ALERT! - Phone Scam Lawyers Collecting Debt
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…
Trouble with Plan Payments, What Do You Do?
The story out of Pennsylvania about a chapter 13 debtor (and off-duty police officer) holding up a turnpike fare collection vehicle would have been rich comedic material if it hadn’t involved a real-life shootout and real-life fatalities. But just because…
How Debt Limits Impact a Bankruptcy
Typically, the menu of bankruptcy chapters presented to individuals is short: you’ve got chapter 7 and you’ve got chapter 13. Because the various flavors in which those two chapters can come is endless, though, it’s relatively rare that someone’s forced…
Chapter 13 Plan Payment Update
Great News for Chapter 13 Payments! The Trustee John F. Logan recently announced that electronic payments (epay) is now AVAILABLE!! The hassle of remembering to mail or drop off a check/certified fund every month to your trustee just got easier. If you still prefer to…
Vehicle Repossession Scenarios
Receiving calls about vehicle repossessions is not new to our office. A bankruptcy can help with repossessions in two different scenarios. Read More.. Read More… So as between the 2 scenarios, the 2nd option is simpler and cheaper. View our Filing…
Another Attempt to Student Loan Dischargability
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…
WRAL TV Story on Allegations That WakeMed Violated Bankruptcy Rule
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.
When Should I File my Chapter 7 Bankruptcy?
Usually, it’s chapter 13 cases that are most time-sensitive, but that doesn’t mean you should carelessly delay the filing of your chapter 7. Here are a few reasons why filing sooner, rather, than later can be a good idea. Repossession…
Scam Targets Bankruptcy Filers
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…
