Sentences with phrase «unsecured household debt»

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In a chapter 7 bankruptcy, if your income is enough to cover basic living expenses plus the required mortgage payments, but your income isn't enough to also pay credit cards, unsecured loans and the like, the result of the bankruptcy filing is to wipe out the non-mortgage debts completely, thus freeing up household income to devote entirely to keeping the mortgage current and paying living expenses.

I've tried, and I can think of only one common household expense that yields no benefit whatsoever: interest payments on unsecured debt like credit card debt.

Filing personal bankruptcy means giving up everything you own (except for property that is considered exempt, such as basic clothing and household goods, and other items depending on where you live), in exchange for the elimination of your unsecured debts.

Consider that the average indebted household carries over $ 15,000 in credit card debt alone, not to mention medical debt, personal loans, second mortgages on underwater homes, and other types of unsecured debt.

3.1 We will undertake a comprehensive review your current financial situation, including an analysis of your income (all the money that comes into your household), your essential and priority expenditure (things like rent or mortgage, gas, electricity, food, transport to work and any repayments towards loans that secured against an asset such as your home), unsecured debts (such as credit cards, overdrafts and personal loans) and assets (things you own that have a saleable value, such as property and cars).