Cut the Cable Cord – and Save Money
Have you seen the ads about ditching your cable and saving money? I’m not talking about ditching your cable and switching to satellite. I’m talking about cutting off cable or ...
Did Your Credit Score Go Up While You Were Sleeping?
Did you notice an increase in your credit score? If you have not checked your credit score recently now is a good time to do so. You may be pleasantly ...
How Do I Stop Wage Garnishment?
Wage garnishments are allowed in Georgia for certain types of debt. Your creditor receives a portion of the money from your wages each pay period until the debt is paid ...
Student Loan Repayment Rights
Student loan debt now exceeds $1.5 trillion and is officially a crisis. If you have a student loan, the National Consumer Law Center published an article that will answer many ...
Can I File Bankruptcy Again?
Can I file a bankruptcy case even if I filed one before? Life doesn’t always go according to plan. Sometimes clients find it necessary to file a second bankruptcy case ...
Online Sales Taxes – Yikes!
Aren’t we all used to clicking on the shopping cart icon, checking out online, and not seeing any sales tax collected on most retail websites? I wonder how much I’ve ...
Can Taxes Be Included in Bankruptcy?
Taxes and Bankruptcy When money gets tight, clients often adjust their tax withholdings so they have more take-home pay to pay bills. Although this sounds good in the short term, ...
How Does a Debt Settlement Affect My Credit?
Many of my clients consider the trade-off of having large amounts of debt forgiven through the bankruptcy process versus settling a particular debt and avoid bankruptcy. Both processes impact your credit, ...
Is Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Right for My Company?
A business can have good years and bad years. Some years, the company may earn a substantial profit and in other years the business may break even or suffer a ...
Choosing the Right Bankruptcy Lawyer is Like Choosing the Right Gasoline
Have you noticed all the choices at the gas pump? There’s diesel, regular gas, biofuels, and an assortment of color-coded octane ratings. I even saw a choice for racing fuel. ...