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Credit reporting agencies typically report bankruptcy information for a period of ten (10) years. This, however, does not mean that your credit rating will remain low for that entire time. Credit scoring takes into account the age of derogatory information, and discounts the value of that information the older it is. Therefore, […]



The recent case of In re Mu’Min, 2007 WL 2791364 (Bkrtcy.E.D.Pa. 2007) the court held that the refusal of University of Pennsylvania to provide a transcript to a debtor, due to the existence of an unpaid, student loan debt that is nondischargeable under 11 U.S.C. ยง 523(a)(8), violates the automatic stay provision of the Bankruptcy […]



The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit recently decided Johnson v. Smith, No. 05-8089 and, in doing so, set out nicely the requirements for finding a violation of the automatic stay in bankruptcy.
The case arose when M&M Auto Outlet-Wyoming, Inc. repossessed the debtor’s pickup truck after a Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition had […]



The case of In re Sanchez, 2007 WL 2137790 (Bkrtcy.S.D.Tex. 2007) is the latest case in which a mortgage company got slammed for using Chapter 13 Plan payments to pay for unapproved and undisclosed post-petition fees and costs.
The Court in Sanchez held that post-petition, pre-confirmation attorney fees, costs and property inspection fees charged by the […]