Practice areas emphasizing cases dealing with all matters of stopping wage garnishment, representing bankruptcy clients, Chapter 7 and 13, and assist clients in understanding
all ramifications of bankruptcy proceedings.
It is important to know the tax
ramifications of bankruptcy or insolvency.
Now, it sounds as if your friend appreciates
the ramifications of a bankruptcy; why else would he be trying to protect the assets he's worked hard to acquire.
Not exact matches
They can't advise you on the legal
ramifications of filing, they can't answer your questions about which assets, debts, or other information you must disclose on your paperwork, they can't tell you if an asset is exempt, they can't tell you if filing
bankruptcy is the best debt - relief solution for you, and they can't represent you if something goes wrong with your filing.
Because
bankruptcy can have so many serious known and unknown
ramifications on your life, you should first thoroughly consider your other options, including renegotiating debt outside
of bankruptcy.
Unfortunately, many
of them did so without fully understanding the legal
ramifications, what
bankruptcy could and could not do for them, and without first determining if
bankruptcy was really their best option.
For more information on tax
ramifications to you personally you may also wish to consult a CPA or Tax Attorney and to refer to the IRS website www.irs.gov IRS Publication 908 - «
Bankruptcy Tax Guide» and IRS Form 982, Reduction
of Tax Attributes Due to Discharge
of Indebtedness available on the IRS website.
Many
of the attorney's potential clients are people who do not take filing for
bankruptcy lightly; as such, they want to do some homework about what
bankruptcy is, what the
ramifications are, etc..
«Heart disease and heart failure is no longer an immediate death sentence but the financial
ramifications are enormous forcing many Americans into
bankruptcy,» explains Jesse Slome, executive director
of the American Association for Critical Illness Insurance, the national trade organization.
The most challenging thing about buying distressed debt is knowing all
of the legal requirements and
ramifications, especially when a borrower is in or near
bankruptcy.