Robledo Family Winery, Inc., a boutique winery based in Sonoma, California, enters bankruptcy as a small business debtor.​ ...

There are two questions that estate planners commonly ask when they have a client in financial distress: (1) If the Debtor has a history of tithing or making other charitable contributions, can the ...

In a recent decision in In re Taing, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts held that a mortgagee holds a claim that could be modified by a Chapter 11 plan even if the debtor was ...

Spendthrift trust fails due to beneficiary’s dominion & alter ego status. Court voids transfers, allowing creditors to access ...

Bankruptcy Code Section 329(a) mandates the disclosure of an attorney’s transactions with a debtor. Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 2016(b) implements the attorney disclosure requirements ...

IN the arduous world of Philippine debt recovery, most creditors instinctively reach for a collection case as their first line of attack. For some, however, this leads to a hollow victory, a “paper ...

In this modern world that we live in, consumers are protected and have certain rights when it comes to debt collection. The practices of debt collection agencies have to abide by rules through the ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Chip Stapleton is a Series 7 and Series 66 license holder, CFA Level 1 exam holder, and ...

Without memory, there is no debt. Put another way: Without story, there is no debt. The story of debt reached a historic moment this week. An outsized bubble of interlocking debt burst, leading to the ...

Andrew Lewis pays $320 a month on his student loans. Daniel Chung doesn’t know how much debt he’ll end up with on top of the $7,500 he already has. The rising college senior plans to go to law school, ...