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Jeff Field & Associates

5.0
237 Reviews

  • Serving Silver Creek, GA and Floyd County, Georgia

  • Law Firm with 1 lawyer2 awards

  • Our only business is bankruptcy. Our small law firm has helped thousands of people, in a compassionate way, face their financial problems and resolve them under Chapter 13 and... Read More

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Keith J. Williams, P.C.

4.3
57 Reviews

  • Serving Silver Creek, GA and Floyd County, Georgia

  • Law Firm with 1 lawyer3 awards

  • For more than 20 years, our law firm has consistently strived to be the one-stop shop law firm for individuals and businesses throughout northwest Georgia.

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Brinson Askew Berry, LLP

4.9
87 Reviews

  • Serving Silver Creek, GA and Floyd County, Georgia

  • Law Firm with 13 lawyers2 awards

  • A Full-Service Law Firm Serving North Georgia & Metro Atlanta Since 1975. Call Us Toll Free 1-706-237-9495.

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Thomas Dow Richardson
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Can I file for bankrupcy if I co-own a house that my sister still lives in without losing the house?

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Answered by attorney Richard James Symmes (Unclaimed Profile)
Bankruptcy lawyer at Symmes Law Group, PLLC
Whether your sister can keep the house will depend on whether the house has any equity. If there is no equity you sister can continue to make the full mortgage payment and retain the home. If there is a substantial amount of equity in the home and you don't use exemptions to protect the home, the trustee may sell the home and pay your sister her share of the equity proceeds.
Whether your sister can keep the house will depend on whether the house has any equity. If there is no equity you sister can continue to make the full mortgage payment and retain the home. If there is a substantial amount of equity in the home and you don't use exemptions to protect the home, the trustee may sell the home and pay your sister her share of the equity proceeds.
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Does filing a Chapter 7 bankruptcy protect one from going to jail for child support?

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Answered by attorney Tony E. Carballo (Unclaimed Profile)
Bankruptcy lawyer at Carballo Law Offices
They don't put you in jail for not paying child support unless the judge finds that you can afford it but don't obey the order intentionally or you could afford it if you looked for work. Jail is to force you to comply and not to punish so no sense in putting a person in jail if impossible for the person to comply due to unemployment that you cannot be avoided. There is a criminal charge the District Attorney can file for intentional failure to support in the past but the person has the right to a jury trial, an appointed lawyer and all other rights of criminal defendants. Filing a Chapter 13 will stop the jailing by the family law judge to make a person comply (since the person is complying by paying under the protection of the bankruptcy court) but the person must pay the entire amount owed in support in a plan with a maximum five year term plus ongoing support payments. It does not sound like your friend can qualify for a Chapter 13 due to lack of income. Chapter 7 will do him no good regarding child support. If he was convicted of a criminal charge for failure to support then he might be on probation that requires him to keep current on support or have his probation violated and be sent to jail to serve the original sentence. Bankruptcy will also stop a violation of probation for nonpayment but only if he is in a Chapter 13 that requires payment of the child support arrears and ongoing support. In other words, there is no probation violation if payments are being made through a Chapter 13 Plan.
They don't put you in jail for not paying child support unless the judge finds that you can afford it but don't obey the order intentionally or you could afford it if you looked for work. Jail is to force you to comply and not to punish so no sense in putting a person in jail if impossible for the person to comply due to unemployment that you cannot be avoided. There is a criminal charge the District Attorney can file for intentional failure to support in the past but the person has the right to a jury trial, an appointed lawyer and all other rights of criminal defendants. Filing a Chapter 13 will stop the jailing by the family law judge to make a person comply (since the person is complying by paying under the protection of the bankruptcy court) but the person must pay the entire amount owed in support in a plan with a maximum five year term plus ongoing support payments. It does not sound like your friend can qualify for a Chapter 13 due to lack of income. Chapter 7 will do him no good regarding child support. If he was convicted of a criminal charge for failure to support then he might be on probation that requires him to keep current on support or have his probation violated and be sent to jail to serve the original sentence. Bankruptcy will also stop a violation of probation for nonpayment but only if he is in a Chapter 13 that requires payment of the child support arrears and ongoing support. In other words, there is no probation violation if payments are being made through a Chapter 13 Plan.
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Am I eligible to file a chapter 13 if I was discharged from one before?

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Answered by attorney Gregory J Wald (Unclaimed Profile)
Bankruptcy lawyer at Gregory J. Wald
Yes, you can still file a Chapter 13 case to cure your mortgage default. However if the previous Chapter 13 case was filed within the past two years, you won't be entitled to a discharge of your debt.
Yes, you can still file a Chapter 13 case to cure your mortgage default. However if the previous Chapter 13 case was filed within the past two years, you won't be entitled to a discharge of your debt.
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