Mathis, TX Bankruptcy Law Firms & Lawyers

The filing of bankruptcy will prevent all creditor actions against you unless they can get the court to lift the automatic stay against collections. At a minimum, it should give you a few more days to relocate.

To have the bankruptcy information removed from your credit report, you need to submit a dispute to the credit bureaus who are currently reporting that information. The dismissal paperwork that you should have received from the court and/or your bankruptcy attorney will serve as proof that you in fact did not receive a bankruptcy discharge and simply filed a petition for bankruptcy protection that was later dismissed. Your written disputes should be sumitted to the credit bureaus at the addresses found on their websites (they generally have a contact us tab on their websites). They will have 30 days to investigate your claim and update the information, so the change to your credit information may not happen over night, so the sooner you get this information corrected, the better. 

Your daughter can file for bankruptcy by herself, but you will remain liable for the debts that you so signed for. Additionally, student loans are not normally dis-chargeable in bankruptc