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		<title>Will Bankruptcy Hurt My Immigration Status?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benefits of Bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filing for bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration status]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a post by my friend and fellow blogger, Jay Fleischman, on his blog about filing for bankruptcy and the impact on your immigration status.  I like his common sense advice. When a potential client is sitting in front of me and contemplates filing for bankruptcy, they often ask about the impact of the...


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		<title>I Feel So Guilty Filing Bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Michaux, Topeka Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benefits of Bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filing Bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fresh start]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People seeking debt relief often feel guilty about filing for bankruptcy.  We are raised to pay our debts and conditioned to feel bad when we can&#8217;t.  In fact,  people will go to extreme measures, such as depleting the retirement account, to avoid bankruptcy. When you can&#8217;t pay your bills because your credit card lenders have...


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		<title>What Happens to Divorce Debts in Bankruptcy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Michaux, Topeka Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benefits of Bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapter 13]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discharge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapter 7]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discharged in bankruptcy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[domestic support obligation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debts in the nature of support of child or former spouse are not discharged in either chapter 7 or 13 bankruptcy. What about property settlement debts?  If the divorce decree contains a hold harmless obligation that makes one spouse indemnify the other spouse, then the hold harmess oglibation is a separate debt to the spouse...


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<li><a href='http://bankruptcykansas.info/owe-secured-debts-mortgages-car-loans-bankruptcy/' rel='bookmark' title='Do I Still Owe Secured Debts (Mortgages, Car Loans) After Bankruptcy?'>Do I Still Owe Secured Debts (Mortgages, Car Loans) After Bankruptcy?</a></li>
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		<title>What are Bankruptcy Avoidance Powers?</title>
		<link>http://bankruptcykansas.info/what-are-bankruptcy-avoidance-powers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Michaux, Topeka Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Outcomes, Fraud, Bankruptcy Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benefits of Bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trustees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avoidance powers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[debtor in possession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lien avoidance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preferential payments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recover transfers of property]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avoidance powers: Rights given to the bankruptcy trustee (or the debtor in possession in a Chapter 11) to recover certain transfers of property such as preferences or fraudulent transfers or to void liens created before the commencement of a bankruptcy case. More on preferences. Related posts:What is Bankruptcy Lien Avoidance? Can I File Bankruptcy Without...


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		<title>What is Bankruptcy Lien Avoidance?</title>
		<link>http://bankruptcykansas.info/what-is-bankruptcy-lien-avoidance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Michaux, Topeka Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benefits of Bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exemptions & What You Get to Keep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avoidance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy lien avoidance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exemption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impair exemption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judgment lien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lien avoidance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lien stripping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Avoidance: The Bankruptcy Code permits the debtor to eliminate (avoid) some kinds of liens that interfere with (or impair) an exemption claimed in the bankruptcy. Most judgment liens that have attached to the debtor’s home can be avoided if the total of the liens (mortgages, judgment liens and statutory liens) is greater than the value...


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		<title>Do You Owe What I Owe? Peace, Fresh Start Waiting for You New Year&#039;s Night</title>
		<link>http://bankruptcykansas.info/do-you-owe-what-i-owe-a-christmas-carol/</link>
		<comments>http://bankruptcykansas.info/do-you-owe-what-i-owe-a-christmas-carol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Michaux, Topeka Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My blogging colleague, Wendell Sherk of St. Louis, MO, wrote this bankruptcy riff on an old Christmas carol: Do You Owe What I Owe? (To the tune of “Do You Hear What I Hear?”) Said the neighbor to the young man, “Do you owe what I owe? Bills up to the sky, young man, Do...


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		<title>What is the Automatic Stay?</title>
		<link>http://bankruptcykansas.info/what-is-the-automatic-stay/</link>
		<comments>http://bankruptcykansas.info/what-is-the-automatic-stay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Michaux, Topeka Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benefits of Bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filing Bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automatic stay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy automatic stay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[injunction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relief from automatic stay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relief from stay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stop collection actions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stop foreclosure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Automatic stay: The injunction issued automatically upon the filing of a bankruptcy case which prohibits collection actions against the debtor, the debtor’s property or the property of the estate. See Relief from Stay on terminating the injunction. Related posts:Don&#8217;t Be Fooled by False Letter that Says Your Bankruptcy is Dismissed &#8211; Your Stay Still in...


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