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Wanger Jones Helsley PC

4.6
234 Reviews

  • Serving Coalinga, CA and Fresno County, California

  • Law Firm with 25 lawyers2 awards

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The Law Office of Frank Huerta Jr.

4.6
9 Reviews

  • Serving Coalinga, CA and Fresno County, California

  • Law Firm with 1 lawyer2 awards

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Frandzel Robins Bloom & Csato, L.C.

4.8
20 Reviews

  • Serving Coalinga, CA and Fresno County, California

  • Law Firm with 25 lawyers2 awards

  • Legal Counsel & Litigation Services for Financial Institutions and Businesses.

  • Bankruptcy LawyersComplex Business Litigation, Commercial Law, and 10 more

Peter Csato
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Baker Manock & Jensen, PC

4.6
110 Reviews

  • Serving Coalinga, CA and Fresno County, California

  • Law Firm with 28 lawyers2 awards

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What happens to joint bank accounts in bankruptcy?

Michael Jay Berger
Answered by attorney Michael Jay Berger
Bankruptcy lawyer at Law Offices of Michael Jay Berger
If you file bankruptcy and receive your discharge, you wipe out your personal obligation to pay your discharged debts. Anyone else that was responsible for payments of these debts is still responsible for paying these debts. This means that your cosigner will be stuck with the entire obligation if you default on it or wipe out your personal responsibility for the debt by filing bankruptcy.
If you file bankruptcy and receive your discharge, you wipe out your personal obligation to pay your discharged debts. Anyone else that was responsible for payments of these debts is still responsible for paying these debts. This means that your cosigner will be stuck with the entire obligation if you default on it or wipe out your personal responsibility for the debt by filing bankruptcy.
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Is it possible to delay the court hearing to finalize the chapter 7 bankruptcy?

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Answered by attorney Tony E. Carballo (Unclaimed Profile)
Bankruptcy lawyer at Carballo Law Offices
You cannot keep the house if you have not paid your mortgage in a Chapter 7. The automatic stay expires 60 days after the initial date of the meeting of creditors. Therefore, the hearing you mention, which I assume is a motion for relief of stay by the bank in order to foreclose, will be granted unless you pay everything owe and/or start regular mortgage payments immediately. The judge might make the order granting relief of stay to the bank effective on the 60th day after the date of the meeting of creditors (assuming the judge is a reaaly nice person and feels sorry for you). If you wanted to keep your home and get more time while you find a job and/or do a modification, you should have filed a Chapter 13. You need a lawyer who might be able to convert your case to a Chapter 13 if possible. Once relief of stay is granted in the C7 case a later filing of a Chapter 13 will not stop the foreclosure unless you ask the court to re-impose the automatic stay and the court agrees to do it. That will not be easy.
You cannot keep the house if you have not paid your mortgage in a Chapter 7. The automatic stay expires 60 days after the initial date of the meeting of creditors. Therefore, the hearing you mention, which I assume is a motion for relief of stay by the bank in order to foreclose, will be granted unless you pay everything owe and/or start regular mortgage payments immediately. The judge might make the order granting relief of stay to the bank effective on the 60th day after the date of the meeting of creditors (assuming the judge is a reaaly nice person and feels sorry for you). If you wanted to keep your home and get more time while you find a job and/or do a modification, you should have filed a Chapter 13. You need a lawyer who might be able to convert your case to a Chapter 13 if possible. Once relief of stay is granted in the C7 case a later filing of a Chapter 13 will not stop the foreclosure unless you ask the court to re-impose the automatic stay and the court agrees to do it. That will not be easy.
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I filed for bankruptcy but am still haing financial problems, what can I do?

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Answered by attorney Javed Inam Ellahie (Unclaimed Profile)
Bankruptcy lawyer at Ellahie Law Firm
Bankruptcy helps in discharging debt obligation so you are no longer obligated personally on the home and the truck (since you did not reaffirm) and will not be even in the case of a short sale. The creditor, however, is secured by the home and the truck creditor by the truck, so if you do not pay them, they mortgage lender can foreclose on the home and the truck creditor can repossess the home. Subsequent to receiving a Chapter 7 discharge, you may still be able to file a Chapter 13 and keep your home, provided your Chapter 13 plan payments are such that they will cure all the arrears owed on the home, that you agree to keep the home post filing current (you may also want to look at loan modification options) and agree to pay the truck debt full. Recommend you consult an experience bk attorney. This procedure known as a Chapter 20 may not work in some courts so do talk to a local bankruptcy specialist.
Bankruptcy helps in discharging debt obligation so you are no longer obligated personally on the home and the truck (since you did not reaffirm) and will not be even in the case of a short sale. The creditor, however, is secured by the home and the truck creditor by the truck, so if you do not pay them, they mortgage lender can foreclose on the home and the truck creditor can repossess the home. Subsequent to receiving a Chapter 7 discharge, you may still be able to file a Chapter 13 and keep your home, provided your Chapter 13 plan payments are such that they will cure all the arrears owed on the home, that you agree to keep the home post filing current (you may also want to look at loan modification options) and agree to pay the truck debt full. Recommend you consult an experience bk attorney. This procedure known as a Chapter 20 may not work in some courts so do talk to a local bankruptcy specialist.
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