Topic
Debt
236 published works
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
Hidden Traps When Borrowing Money from Family to Pay for Bankruptcy
By Bryan Fears
Paying for bankruptcy can leave you broke. The typical bankruptcy case involves credit counseling and financial management class fees; court filing fees; and attorney fees. In many cases, paying for…
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
File Bankruptcy and Live Longer?
By Bryan Fears
Consumer bankruptcy attorneys have long known that filing bankruptcy can relieve personal stress. Clients burdened with overwhelming debt are able to “start fresh” after bankruptcy without the stress of debt…
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
Hard Truths about Bankruptcy
By Bryan Fears
In the movie Jerry Maguire, Jerry’s crisis of conscience leads him to write a company memo/mission statement for his sports agency. The title of the memo is “Things We Think…
Southern California Bankruptcy Law Blog
The Wonderful World Of Loan Sharks
What’s in your wallet? It’s a loan shark! That’s how many people feel when they consider their ever-increasing debt burden. Unfortunately, many of those same people continue to feed the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“The Debt Penalty: Exposing the Financial Barriers to Offender Reintegration”
Main August 22, 2014"The Debt Penalty: Exposing the Financial Barriers to Offender Reintegration"The title of this post is the title of this intriguing new paper authored by Douglas Evans with…
The Right Coast
Japan: Land Of The Setting Sun – WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:DXJ) | Seeking Alpha
What is informative about Japan is that it represents the front edge of where the entire developed world, including Europe and the US, is heading - into a dangerous cycle…
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
Why life insurance is a good idea when you are in debt
By Bryan Fears
Death comes for us all. Life insurance can ease the financial pain and pay the expenses of an unexpected demise, as well as provide for the welfare and support of…
PropertyProf Blog
Map of the Day: Share of Adults with Debt in Collections
When it comes to debt in collections, not all regions of the country are equal. As the map above shows, there are "great regional differences and geographic concentrations of debt…
Education Law Prof Blog
Report Questions If Recent Student Loan Debt Rhetoric Matches Reality
Much of the federal government's interest in creating accountability standards for higher education focuses on the cost and student loan debt. The media has recently highlighted the rising amount of student debt.…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Levi, Segal & Segal on Financial Reporting
Shai Levi, Benjamin Segal, and Dan Segal have posted Does Corporate Governance Make Financial Reports Better, or Just Better for Equity Investors? on SSRN with the following abstract:Financial reports should provide…