Blog Posts in 2010

President Obama signed the “Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure” Act in May of 2009. The law was designed to further restrict credit card practices that the government and many ...

Taxes for which returns were not filed at all or…were filed, but within 2 years of filing a bankruptcy are not dischargeable. The issue here is not always just the two-year date as that becomes ...

Tax debt that is based on your income and for which a return was required to be filed within 3 years prior to the filing of your bankruptcy petition is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. See 11 U.S.C. ...

If you filed a chapter 7 bankruptcy within the last 8 years and received a discharge, you cannot file another chapter 7 bankruptcy. It is common for chapter 7 bankruptcy filers to need another ...

If you have filed a chapter 12 or more commonly a chapter 13 bankruptcy and received a discharge of one of those cases within the last 6 years i.e. you cannot file a chapter 7 bankruptcy and receive a ...

If you filed a chapter 7 bankruptcy and received a discharge within 8 years of the filing of your present chapter 7 bankruptcy case, you are not entitled to receive a discharge in the present case. It ...