Blog Posts in October, 2010

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 ...

Most retirement accounts are protected from seizure by creditors. Therefore, if you have serious debt, a retirement account, and feel like bankruptcy may be in your future, you shouldn’t do the ...