Dramatic Examples of How Bankruptcy Can Be a Good Idea Even if It Can’t Write Off Every Debt
Here’s how bankruptcy actually works, and works well, even when a significant debt or two can’t be written off.
Here’s how bankruptcy actually works, and works well, even when a significant debt or two can’t be written off.
Don’t disregard bankruptcy as an option just because it does not write off the debt which is your immediate headache. There’s likely some good medicine for that headache after all.
Even without mentioning the word “bankruptcy,” the most important court decision in years may still have a huge effect on future bankruptcies. How? Possibly by greatly reducing the need to file bankruptcies resulting from medical debts.
In bankruptcy, are you allowed to favor: 1) creditors with collateral, so that you can keep the collateral; 2) creditors toward whom you have special loyalty; and 3) creditors who have extraordinary leverage against you?