Explore what judgment liens are, how they work, their differences from property liens, and what debtors can do to manage ...

Entities have limited standing to object, and prior alter ego trust rulings can bind debtors via collateral estoppel.

Tenancy by the entireties (known as TBE) is a form of property where husband and wife own property jointly, but on the death of one the entire interest automatically passes to the other (called the ...

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In a recent decision in In re Taing, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts held that a mortgagee holds a claim that could be modified by a Chapter 11 plan even if the debtor was ...

leverage that springs from an organized association of debtors, often in debt to shared creditors, to negotiate the terms and conditions of debt contracts, including the abolition of unjust debts the ...

A debtor or borrower is a person or organization that borrows money from a financial institution, usually tied to a loan or credit card. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act protects debtors from ...

The term “small business debtor” originated in 1994 with Congress’s first attempt at a streamlined chapter 11 process for businesses that had insufficient assets to fund a typical bankruptcy ...

Skip tracing is a process used to find a debtor who has relocated or disappeared to avoid legal responsibilities, such as debt payments. The skip tracing process involves verifying a debtor’s ...

A Nigerian lawyer has offered a piece of advice to creditors, offering practical steps to handle their debtors and possibly ...

Without memory, there is no debt. Put another way: Without story, there is no debt. The story of debt reached a historic moment this week. An outsized bubble of interlocking debt burst, leading to the ...

If a court grants you, as a creditor, a judgment in a contested debt case, then the debtor is legally obligated to repay the debt under court order. If debtors do not make good on their obligation, a ...