Divorce is one of the three major predictors of bankruptcy filing, along with job loss and illness. Families that might have been making it as a single household are now two households. Debts manageable before are now crushing. Or, families weren’t making it and the stress over money troubles hastens the end of the marriage. […]
Readers Vote With Their Mouse
Last time, I listed my 10 favorite Bankruptcy Mastery posts from 2013. Just for fun, I went back and looked at the 2013 traffic numbers for the top 10 Mastery posts, by readership. The two lists do not share a single post! What you read and hopefully found useful was an entirely different set of […]
The Best of Bankruptcy Mastery in 2013
Let’s have some retrospective before we look forward to bankruptcy lawyering in 2014. Here are my picks for my 10 favorite Mastery posts for 2013: Business Bankruptcy and the Bingo Effect- flushing out business creditors your client is oblivious to Untangling the Converted Case- what you need to know and what you need to tell the […]
What Price Silence?
Read any good orders lately? I read a not-so-good order yesterday. It affirmed sanctions against debtor’s counsel for advising the client to remain silent in the face of a Chapter 13 confirmation order to disclose. That sent me off to read through the standard order confirming plan in the Northern District. I was not keen […]
The Trick To Getting All Pending Actions To Bankruptcy Court
Don’t overlook the ability to keep your client and any litigation that you want or need to go forward post petition together, in bankruptcy court. You can keep them together by removing pending state court actions to bankruptcy court. I say “bankruptcy court” because that’s almost inevitably where the case, removed according to statute to […]
BankruptcyMastery Chosen One of Best Blogs of 2013
Bankruptcy Mastery was selected one of the 100 top Blawgs of 2013 by the American Bar Association! I’m blown away. Mastery serves such a distinct segment of the law world that I never expected that anyone beyond bankruptcy lawyers, and new bankruptcy lawyers at that, would notice. But someone did notice (thank you whoever nominated […]
Bankruptcy Rules And Forms Change
The only thing constant is change, we’re told. So, here are the important changes to the rules of bankruptcy procedure and the official forms effective December 1. Bankruptcy rules Rule 1007 now permits the provider of the personal financial management course to notify the court of the debtor’s completion thereof. The debtor is relieved of […]
