I originally wrote this blog last December, but something happened today that made me want to add this story and re-post it. A client hired me to do a chapter 7 today. She first came to see me a year or two ago, but was so appalled by the concept of bankruptcy that she decided […]
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A lawyer I know who also does a lot of immigration work came to visit me today. He wanted to ask me if I knew of a forms preparer whose fraud and scams had gotten a client of his in trouble. I stopped him in the middle of his story, because that same preparer had
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One issue which seems to cause a fair amount of confusion, and which also causes people to do inappropriate things before going to see a lawyer, is the subject of the number of cars, and the number of car loans (if any), a person can take into bankruptcy. Frankly, the question by itself misses the
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From time to time you may have a situation which would require the opportunity to speak with a lawyer, but not really the need to hire a lawyer on an ongoing basis. It presents a little bit of a conundrum. Since you have no intention of hiring an attorney, it is not really something that
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The Bankruptcy Code prohibits the discharge of student debt unless that debt causes an “undue hardship” for the Debtor. “Undue hardship” is an amorphous term, which is itself problematic when people of limited means are being asked to pay money to seek to discharge debts that they cannot afford. The Congress put the additional hurdle
I had a new immigration client come in and I needed the tax returns of her and her husband. She had her taxes done at Jackson Hewitt. It was a rather straightforward return. There was only W-2 income and no house or investment property. Jackson Hewitt charged her $226.00. It is a return for which
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Lots of people have problems with the Internal Revenue Service. Although the tax season runs through April 15, the audit season runs throughout the year. I have had a number of people come to see me over the past few weeks who had their taxes prepared somewhere else, and they are now having problems with
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Although the tax season is over, we do occasionally still have clients coming in because they received a letter from the Internal Revenue Service or from the Department of Revenue demanding that they go online and verify their identity. Specifically, they are asked to go to a specific website and take an identity test. I
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In this case, the Bankruptcy Court stripped a federal tax lien off of a Debtor’s Property. The IRS conceded that there was no equity in the house for them to attach, but claimed to be partially secured because they also attached the Debtor’s personal property. The court noted that the IRS was still not secured
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I had two new tax clients come in this morning who both transferred from the same tax preparer, and who both had tragic stories to tell. In both cases the tax preparer was named “Vanna”, but did not put his name on the tax return. The first individual was audited by the IRS. They disallowed
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