Bankruptcy

Tuesday's News...

By Bill McLeod, Esq.

Shocker: BAPCPA put more profits into the pockets of credit card companies says Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren.

Yesterday I blogged about honesty in the bankruptcy. Today, there?s a report out of Wichita of a former debtor who was not so honest. He?ll be taking an involuntary vacation for 33 months for bankruptcy fraud.

Living on the edge: rising gas and food prices may push struggling families into foreclosure.

MSNBC explores the high price of commuting.

Does anyone have a spare $25 billion that they aren?t using?

Despite a new Massachusetts regulation forcing lenders to wait 90 days to foreclosure on homes (it went into effect on May 1), the Boston Business Journal reports that foreclosures continue to climb.

Sign of the times: Commercial bankruptcy filing rates are going up.

Sign of the apocalypse: Batman was arrested. No joke.

Full post as published by McLeod Law Offices on July 22, 2008 (boomark / email).