What are your rights in bankruptcy in light of the Harrisburg Diocese bankruptcy filing? As many of you are aware, Catholic Dioceses across the United States have been involved in allegations and eventual claims for clergy abuse. This has resulted
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Yes, I caught your attention, but I wasn’t talking about hangovers related to holiday partying. Rather, I am talking about hangovers caused by holiday overspending. This is a good time of year to assess your financial situation. Do you have
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Q: Will I lose my house? A: Generally speaking, no. Most bankruptcies involve the use of substantial exemptions provided by State and Federal law, so it is unlikely that you will lose your house, unless you do so voluntarily. For
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Since my last blog on Bankruptcy and the Elderly in 2014, the problem has actually become worse. Recently, the New York Times had an article entitled “Too Little Too Late: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans.” See New York Times, August
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Continuing the theme of the perils of “Do-It-Yourself” legal documents, my subject for today is the risks associated with a “Do-It-Yourself” bankruptcy filing. While many bankruptcy filers have financial issues and regard legal fees as an obstacle to bankruptcy, this
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Are my retirement assets protected in bankruptcy? As many of our firm’s regular readers know, we have a continuing blog series on commonly asked questions in bankruptcy. Now that we are beginning a new year, many of you may be
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Divorce & Bankruptcy As you may have seen from my most recent blog, my firm, Daley Zucker Meilton & Miner is holding a free seminar on Divorce and Bankruptcy on September 27, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. in our Lemoyne office.
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Divorce and Bankruptcy in Pennsylvania In preparation for an upcoming seminar, the attorneys at Daley Zucker Meilton & Miner, LLC, will do a series of posts to introduce the topic of the interplay between divorce and bankruptcy. The seminar is tentatively
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How to Protect the Elderly From Scams and Overly Aggressive Bill Collectors It is unfortunate that some take advantage of our “Greatest Generation”. One common way of reaching senior citizens is by overly aggressive telemarketing of nonexistent investment opportunities and
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The Constitutional Roots of Bankruptcy As a bankruptcy attorney, I often have the need to counsel my clients about their embarrassment and feelings that others will judge them harshly because they filed bankruptcy. I often give them a “pep talk”
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