In our last blog we told you how your “income” determines whether your Chapter 13 [...]

You might have heard that Chapter 13 cases are supposed to take from three to [...]

If you file a bankruptcy as an Oregon resident, the homestead exemption protects the first [...]

You may figure that with a vehicle loan it’s a take-it-or-leave it proposition—that in bankruptcy [...]

If you own a business and need bankruptcy help, figuring out the right game plan [...]

The part of bankruptcy law which seems to go most against common sense involves “preferences”—payments [...]

If you have an income tax lien in force against you, that usually means that [...]

If your income is low enough, you can pass the first part of the “means [...]

If you have the “means” to pay a meaningful amount to your creditors in a [...]

If you have a loan against your vehicle, and this is a vehicle you want [...]

You are about to file a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 case. You know in [...]

In June, a bankruptcy court in Los Angeles emphatically declared that a legally married gay [...]

In the American legal system, when there are hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, [...]

Child and spousal support obligations are treated with great respect in bankruptcy.  This is true [...]

You may have heard that assets that you might lose in a Chapter 7 case [...]

In our last blog we told you that the Oregon Legislature had just passed an [...]

Both the Oregon House and Senate have unanimously passed an increase in the “tools of [...]

In our last blog we talked about how reduced home values can be an advantage [...]

In our last blog we talked about how the home values have fallen during this [...]

The big question in residential real estate for the last year or two has been [...]

In our last blog we talked about MERS—the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.—and the problems [...]

MERS?  What’s MERS?  It’s what’s behind the headline that made the very top of the [...]

The Problem: As the number of foreclosures has skyrocketed in the last two or three [...]

Most people know that some specific kinds of debts can’t be legally written off (“discharged”) [...]

You might have heard that bankruptcy does not help with taxes, and especially not with [...]

It’s not a great idea to decide to make a major decision in life because [...]

In our last blog two weeks ago we talked about major mistakes that many of [...]

During the last few months, the local and national news has been full of stories [...]

Pay Less on Your Vehicle Loan Every Month & Pay It Off for Less Money In our [...]

So you’ve heard that in a regular Chapter 7 bankruptcy most people can keep their [...]