How Does Your Attorney Arrive At the Bankruptcy Fee?
Two friends decided to make extra money selling watermelons outside the steel plant gate where they worked. They bought a truck, went down south and bought the melons for twenty five cents each. They...
View ArticleGay, Same Sex Marriage, and Bankruptcy
If you are gay and in a same sex marriage, bankruptcy help might be available to you in the Northern District of Ohio. This is precisely the circumstance facing a recent client. She originally planned...
View ArticlePay Day Loans, Gambling and Bankruptcy
What do you do when you want to be a high roller gambling at the casino, but you are not? You take out some pay day loans. That is the new trend among the working class in Cleveland. I wouldn’t call...
View ArticleKeep Your Tax Return from Your Creditors
Do you want your bankruptcy creditors to see all the personal information in your tax return? That is exactly what you allow to happen if you do not provide your most recently filed tax return to your...
View ArticleBankruptcy and Why You Need To Fight Your OVI
Bankruptcy and drunk driving or OVI as it is known in Ohio has a connection. If you are OVI and cause bodily injuries, the damages for those injuries are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. Sure, the...
View ArticleFight Your Ohio OVI
Bankruptcy cannot protect you from debts for bodily injuries you cause to another in an OVI related accident. You need to challenge the evidence any time you are faced with an OVI charge. You never...
View ArticleEarned Income and Additional Child Tax Credit in Bankruptcy
Chapter 7 bankruptcy Trustees are paid two ways. They receive a pittance of $60 to administer a “no asset” case. If they recover non-exempt assets then they are paid on a sliding scale based on how...
View ArticleBankruptcy And The Burning Pants
One of the most memorable rhymes of my childhood is, “liar, liar pants on fire.” Little did I understand then how important the truth will be to me in the practice of law. Everything in this business...
View ArticleHunting Your Tax Refund in Bankruptcy Court
The reaches of my law practice include much of rural Lorain, Cuyahoga, Medina and Huron counties. When I mention hunting season does it conjure ideas of deer rifles, 4 wheelers, days in the woods,...
View ArticleDid Marvin Sicherman Really Retire?
An era passed before my eyes in Cleveland Bankruptcy Court. Some barely noticed it. Others are glad it’s happened. Marvin Sicherman is retired. He will no longer be sitting as a chapter 7 trustee in...
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