Blog Posts in Bankruptcy Discharge

These are the types of debts that are discharged in a chapter 13 bankruptcy that are NOT dischargeable in a chapter 7 bankruptcy: 1. Debts that weren’t or couldn’t be discharged in a previous case. 2. ...

If someone “co-signs” a contract in order to help a friend or family member get a loan, that co-signer is legally liable to pay the debt and his or her credit report will reflect that. What if the ...

Debts owed to payday lenders can be wiped away in bankruptcy. The real issue is not the fact that they can. It is that once the consumer reaches a point that a very high-interest payday loan is ...

The goal of most bankruptcy cases, be they of chapter 7 or chapter 13 variety, is a reduction in debt. Reduction of debt occurs in a bankruptcy at the end of the successful case and is called a ...