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Bankruptcy legislation under US law was first introduced in 1898, by the enactment of The Bankruptcy Act. Thereafter, from time to time, there have been many acts and amendments to laws on bankruptcy in response to commercial and socio-economic demands. Petitions for bankruptcy, filed under chapters 7, 11 or 13 Bankruptcy have different implications.

By filing for a bankruptcy petition under Chapter 7, the petitioner hands himself to the protection of the court. It implies that the petitioner has no hope of ever being able to repay back his debts. The end result is a complete liquidation of the petitioner’s assets through a court appointed trustee, subject to exemptions, by way of sale to payback the creditors. Thereafter, the debtor is discharged from his debts. The advantage here is that the court intervenes and prevents creditors from harassing you and makes sure that the debtor is not turned into a destitute after the liquidation of the assets, by exempting certain assets as cannot be attached or liquidated in course of bankruptcy proceeding. Read more…

It Takes Finesse

Credit repair takes finesse. There is much more to the job than just writing letters to the credit bureaus. In fact, as shocking as it seems, you can make a near perfect effort, but if you miss just a few subtle angles, your effort will produce no results at all! Here are the most important and most overlooked credit repair secrets you need to insure your success.

Doubt is Healthy

When you start your credit repair program you will need to examine your credit reports. Do not attribute any special level of competence to the credit bureaus. It is safer to assume that if anything looks even vaguely askew, there is a reporting error. Do not be afraid to dispute. Write your letter and put the onus on the credit bureaus.

Simplicity Pays

The person that will read your dispute letter will read approximately 150 other dispute letters in the working day, at an allotted pace of 3 minutes per dispute. They do not want to hear your life saga. Nor do they want to hear your interpretation of the reporting blunder. If you were not late, just say that you were not late.

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You can now pick up some much needed financing for your small business at the same place that you buy your food and office supplies in bulk.

Sam’s Club, a membership warehouse and a unit of Walmart, is now testing a program to offer small business loans for its members in amounts form $5000.00 to $25000.00.

Lack of credit and small business lending has made it difficult for many small businesses to ride out the recession and this may be a good opportunity for Walmart and a helpful resource for the small entrepreneurs and business owners.

Have bad credit? You’re not alone and many more folks will be in the same boat very soon, thanks to plunging housing values, unemployment, and neighborhood blight. Consider that even folks who would have sold off their firstborn children rather than pay a bill late are finding they have little choice in the matter. No job, no way of selling an underwater home without a mortgage lender’s cooperation, and no way to continue paying a mortgage. Nine of ten short sales fall through. The vast majority of trial mortgage modifications don’t make it to the permanent stage, and of those that do, only half stick.

So when you end up with a deed-in-lieu, a foreclosure, or a short sale on your credit history, you can be sure of paying more for financing for years in the future. Even if you had paid all bills on time before, future lenders will view you as a sub-prime borrower, which makes obtaining loans difficult. It can increase your insurance premiums and even cause you to be turned down for a job. Now multiply that effect by millions of folks across the country. Altho

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According to a study by Saga Equity Release, 17% of over 50s are left with very little money to enjoy their retirement once they have repaid their debts, while 41% of retirees find repaying their debts difficult, headlinemoney.co.uk reports.

However, more and more over 60s are now taking out equity release plans to unlock money from their homes so they can enjoy a `better quality of life in retirement`.

Figures show that 13% of over 55s are retiring in debt, and 40% of this age group have used equity release as a way to repay these – leaving them `better off in real terms` and free to enjoy their retirement.

Executive Chairman of the Saga Group, Andrew Goodsell, said: “This study dispels the concept that equity release is the last resort for those who have nowhere else to turn. We have found that people are increasingly likely to use equity release to clear debts, enabling them a better quality of life in retirement.”