Filing for bankruptcy in Ohio may cause many people to feel like financial failures. However, bankruptcy is better described as an obstacle than the end of the road. In fact, the whole point of bankruptcy is to provide as clean a slate as possible for people to start...
Month: March 2019
Do you have a strategy to pay off credit card debt?
Many people in Ohio have found that credit card debt is easy to incur and hard to pay off. Fortunately, there are a couple of techniques that can help you get out from under your credit card debt. One strategy is to pay your cards with the lowest balances first....
Does Ohio have homestead exemption laws?
Many states have homestead exemption laws, which permit homeowners to list a portion of their home as a "homestead" and thus make it off limits to creditors in the event of a bankruptcy. Ohio is one such state. FindLaw explores Ohio's homestead laws in brief....
Types of debt and your bankruptcy options
If you are like many people in Ohio, when you think about filing for bankruptcy, you might automatically think about a Chapter 7 bankruptcy plan. This is generally the most well-known type of consumer bankruptcy. However, it is not the only one as many consumers find...