Each month you take out your checkbook and write that enormous check to some bank for your mortgage payment. This is the payment that you promised to make each month in exchange for the privilege of borrowing money to buy your home. Let’s say for example you pay Bank of America, Citi Mortgage or some […]
There are a multitude of reasons why a consumer may choose to file for either Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection. Most of these are good reasons and by discussing your situation with a debt relief attorney licensed in your state, the bankruptcy will generally help relieve the financial stress […]
By Phillip Bantz
Staff writer LawyersUSA
January 10, 2011
A recent decision from Massachusetts’ highest court could impact courts across the country and lead to a flood of overturned foreclosures, exacerbating the mortgage mess.
The Massachusetts court is the first state supreme court to rule that only the holder of a mortgage may foreclose on a property, upholding […]
Attorney Michael Goldstein of of the partners at our firm has recently published a feature article in the Southern New England Roundtable Symposium Law Journal titled, The Changing Practuce of Bankruptcy Law and Analysis of How Bankruptcy Practice Has Changed in the Last Decade. Below is a short introduction to the article.
The practice of bankruptcy […]
Recently, I have heard many Creditor rights and debt settlement companies making statements about bankruptcy that are at best inaccurate, and at worst an attempt to dissuade Debtors from filing bankruptcy in lieu of loosing their home and entering into long-term pay back plans with Creditors that are not in a Debtor’s best interest. For […]
