Month: September 2014

In our last post, we discussed how a 2005 federal law affected who in Staten Island can qualify to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The post referred to Chapter 13 bankruptcy, which is another way for individuals with serious debt problems to get out from under them....

Readers may have heard that Congress passed a law a few years ago that prevents many people from filing for bankruptcy. This is not the whole story. The law did raise the standards that an applicant must reach in order to be eligible for debt relief through the...