WHEN YOU SHOULD CONSIDER BANKRUPTCY

If any of the following apply, you should consider bankruptcy:

Real Estate

• You are behind on your mortgage payments
• Your lender has filed a Notice of Default
• Your lender has filed a Notice of Sale
• You need time to sell your home at its market value
• You have a judgment lien attached to your home
• You are behind in your property taxes

Credit Cards

• You have been sued by a credit card company
• You cannot afford your minimum monthly payments
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• You cannot pay off your credit cards in less than 3 years
• You make your payment but your balance is barely going down
• Your interest rate is outrageously high
• Your credit card balance keeps going up
• The collectors call you like crazy and are driving you nuts

Car

• You are behind on your car payment
• Your car is a constant mechanical headache and you want to dump it.
• You have driven your car for almost 3 years and the loan balance is still more than the car is worth.
• You leased a car and will be faced with a big redemption payment than you cannot afford.

Taxes

• You filed your tax returns >2 years ago, the taxes are 3 years old and you want to wipe them out
• You owe recent taxes but want to pay them back without interest
• You want to solve all of your tax problems at one time

Lawsuits

• You have been sued and cannot afford an attorney to defend yourself
• You have been sued and to settle the case costs too much

Student Loan

• You cannot possibly repay your student loan given your age, medical condition, current and future employment
• The student loan lender has attached your paycheck
• The student loan lender has intercepted your tax refund.

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