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Assets on the Edge
The law allows all debtors to keep a bare minimum of property. Not all property is treated with the same degree of deference and not all states have the same opinion about what that “bare minimum” should be, but North…
File, Fight, or Flight?
It’s not uncommon for potential clients to come to our office with a civil summons in their hands. They have been served with a lawsuit. Most of the time these lawsuits are in the form of a creditor that has…
Chapter 7 and Secured Debt
At some point in a typical conversation with a prospective client, I will say something like this: “Filing a chapter 7 bankruptcy will not help you with your secured debt – when it comes to your car payment or house…
Short-Sales in Bankruptcy Cases
As the number of individuals tied to mortgages greater than the value of their homes rises, so does the appeal of short-sales, a process by which the borrower petitions the mortgage lender to accept less than what they are owed…
Preference Payments
The list of creditors that most debtors amass doesn’t make for particularly dramatic reading, or even elicit any particularly compelling pangs of remorse. After all, Discover Card and Bank of America can take care of themselves and have shown themselves…
Sasser Bankruptcy Blog
Welcome to our bankruptcy blog! We hope that the information and commentary that we post here will be helpful. Bankruptcy is a vibrant side-street of the law – not one that commonly makes the guide-books, perhaps, but one that is…
Travis Sasser, Cort Walker, and Philip Sasser
Sasser Law Firm serves clients in the following North Carolina counties: Wake, Harnett, Johnston, Durham, Orange, Granville, Vance, Franklin, Warren, Nash, Lee, Chatham, and Moore.
Federal Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
Sasser Law Firm serves clients in the following North Carolina counties: Wake, Harnett, Johnston, Durham, Orange, Granville, Vance, Franklin, Warren, Nash, Lee, Chatham, and Moore.













