While both involve negotiation with your creditors with the assistance of a third party (a trustee in
the case of a consumer proposal and an accredited credit counselling agency for a debt management plan), a consumer proposal can provide more relief in terms of lower monthly payments in most situations.
In
the case of a consumer proposal, this allows you the time to negotiate an acceptable payment arrangement with CRA.
Not exact matches
An individual's value to his creditors at time
of filing a
consumer proposal comprises his assets valued at liquidation (auction) pricing (that may be a garage sale for your furniture and household goods, the wholesale cash buyer for your car, or the pawnbroker for your jewellery) after deducting exemption in prescribed, legislated amount (s) for car, household goods, clothing, tools
of the trade, medical aids, home, life insurance, pensions, RRSP, etc., which amounts to little or nothing for the large majority
of us, less than our debt in any
case.
In most
cases, if you have equity in your house, a
consumer proposal is a better option, since you can make a plan with your creditors to make payments over a period
of time as long as 60 months so that you can keep your house.
As for Jane and Tom's
case, they went home and thought about the details
of our meeting and gave me a call back today to let me know they thought a
consumer proposal is the option for them.
In a previous article we compared the cost
of 4 different debt relief programs and determined that in most
cases a
consumer proposal offers the lowest possible monthly payment, significantly better even than a debt management plan.
In the majority
of cases, a
Consumer Proposal will require you to pay less than the full amount you owe and still get discharged from your debts.
And in a lot
of cases well if they'd come in and, you know, for example filed a
consumer proposal and dealt all their debt, their income is sufficient to pay their living expenses.
Finally,
consumer proposal and bankruptcy will greatly impact your score which can stay on your report for up to 7 years if real estate was involved in the
case of bankruptcy.
My firm, Hoyes Michalos, has done thousands
of consumer proposals and bankruptcies for people over the years with student loans, and in many
cases dealing with all your other debts, like credit cards and bank loans, gives you the relief you need so you can manage your student loans.
In some
cases this may require the filing
of a
consumer proposal before you retire to eliminate your debts.
If I were to file for bankruptcy, or a
consumer proposal, in Quebec, and after a year or two I won a substantial amount
of money, what would happen to these funds in a court
case?
In contrast, in most
cases in a
consumer proposal an individual can eliminate one dollar
of debt for about 30 cents on the dollar — three to four times less expensive than a debt consolidation loan!
And you said that in a lot
of cases, a
consumer proposal is a better option.
So, on appeal, Mr. Justice H. J. Wilton - Siegel
of the Superior Court
of Justice — Ontario ruled on March 15, 2013 that the hardship provisions apply in a
consumer proposal and in a bankruptcy (the
case citation is Eric Joseph Sitler (Re): 2013 ONSC 1576.
So, in 99 %
of the
cases when someone comes in to file a
consumer proposal with us, we will come up with a deal that is acceptable both to you, the person who owes the money, and the people you owe the money to, and your getting legal protection.
This
proposal would codify a more substantial role for non-lawyers by establishing a category
of service providers called «Court Advocates» in Housing Court and in
consumer credit
cases to assist low - income litigants.
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