Archive for August, 2009

Bankruptcy Preference Payments and Hiding Assets

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

The Bankruptcy Code contains many powerful provisions for protecting property and discharging debts. Occasionally a person will try to shuffle assets around to reach a more beneficial outcome during the bankruptcy. Self-help property transfers usually result in serious problems for the debtor and the bankruptcy attorney. As the saying goes, “Pigs get fat, hogs get [...]

Offshore Options For Bankrupt People

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

In these present times there are now more options that allow you to use offshore options as a means of solving your bankruptcy problems. Because the stigma that is put on you in the country where you have gone bankrupt is not so in other country’s as it stops at the border. For instance you [...]

Is it Possible to File Bankruptcy by Yourself?

Friday, August 14th, 2009

If anyone tells you that you have to file bankruptcy with a lawyer, this person is wrong. You will need to file all the appropriate paperwork, with all supporting documents. At the trustee’s meeting, also known as the 341 meeting, you will have to represent yourself in front of the trustee, with possible representation by [...]