A bankruptcy filing may be the answer. Our office would provide a free consultation as well as a payment plan for legal fees and costs. The filing of the bankruptcy case puts a Stay ( stop) Order on all of your creditors. All calls, legal actions, wage garnishments, bank attachments etc must stop... View More

If you are married and your deceased spouse is the only party who signed as the borrower under a debt, including a mortgage, then you as the non-borrower are not personally liable. A secured lender, however, retains its rights which were granted by the deceased spouse pre-death, and can sell... View More

Just because the house appears to be "abandoned" does not mean that there is not a legal owner. It may be owned by a bank, and in the process of foreclosure, probate or bankruptcy. You would need to contact the owner or the owner's legal representative in order to make an offer to... View More

The only way to protect your interest in the property from your mother's creditors or your own is to transfer it to a legal entity such as an LLC or an irrevocable Trust. The transfer to the Trust or LLC is still an asset in a subsequently filed bankruptcy for two (2) years after the... View More

The Debt is most likely barred by Alabama's statute of limitations . Please see this article

published by Attorney Brent Yarborough : http://www.govcollect.org/files/Alabama_Collection_Law.pdf

Go to the county revenue commissioner website and look up the owner of the property. The tax record should have a mailing address. You can send a letter to the owner to request that they clean up the property and if they do not act within a reasonable time, contact the Mayor's office in the... View More

You can file the Chapter 13 and negotiate with the Child Support agency to either reduce the interest, or at least get them to agree to let you place the interest outside the Plan, due after you get the ch 13 discharge. The latter option (putting interest outside the plan) is usually what... View More

You should contact your Ch 13 Attorney and ask him or her to check the case status. In many cases, especially where the Plan does not provide for 100% payment to general unsecured creditors, "paying off the plan" is not the right option, because (1) it shows additional income / earnings... View More

This can be checked on the US Court’s PACER Electronic Filing system with your social security number. Feel free to contact my office and we’ll check for you.

Child support is a claim that cannot be discharged in Ch 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy, the most common "consumer " bankruptcy cases. In Chapter 13, the claim must be paid in full as a priority debt if the support is owed directly to the other parent or guardian Obligee under the child... View More

The reverse mortgage lender has a security interest, or “lien,” on the real estate. You may be able to file a Ch 13 Bankruptcy case if you have an expectancy legal interest in the property as a legal heir. You would not be personally liable for the reverse mortgage if you simply surrendered... View More

To answer the question you would need to disclose if this is an Alabama Contract for Deed or a Vendor Lien Deed, both of which would ( if drafted properly) set out your legal remedies in the event of “default,” which should also be defined in the document.

The fact summary sets out a “quantum meruit” claim, or “unjust enrichment.”

A written agreement and evidence of breach has a higher chance of success, but her email admission of the claim can be presented in small claims court, where you should file this case. Request all of your... View More

The lender will typically put your post-bankruptcy loan payments into a suspense account if they have filed Chapter 13 just prior to your making a late mortgage payment for the moth of filing. You or your attorney will need to contact the lender's attorney to decide whether the payment for... View More

The only way you can force the lender to accept current payments on your home loan while at the same time pay the arrears over time is via Chapter 13. You may be able to get the $8,000.00 arrears put onto the back end of the loan via a Loan Modification, but you would need to start the... View More

Once you have filed a case with retained legal counsel, it really is not appropriate for another attorney to "second guess" your lawyer since the lawyer should be the person who has spent the most time analyzing your information and becoming familiar with your situation, etc. That being... View More

Chapter 13 may ( stress, "may") enable you to "cram down" the vehicle loan, which is in simple terms a process whereby you pay the creditor only the current fair market value of the vehicle, with interest which is usually Prime Rate plus 1 or 2 points, over a time period of... View More

You get an autoamatic extension of 30 days under the Fed Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure to get the reaffirmation agreement filed

Depends on how much the truck was worth when you transferred it, and what bankruptcy exemptions are avaialble.

I strongly suggest sitting down with a bankruptcy attorney to get this transfer mapped out on paper, and then determine what is best to do. It is not a fatal move that you did... View More

If you are currently in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case, getting a credit card after the filing of your case, but before it is discharged may simply be a matter of going to a credit card clearinghouse website such as www.creditcard.com. You would most like not have a lot of luck finding a credit card... View More