Reboot Your Life: Tampa Student Loan and Bankruptcy Attorney Blog

Our ad is running in the Hillsborough Lawyer magazine today for our South Tampa Workspaces.  We’d love to have any of our fellow attorneys come join us!

We write a column – that has become 1-2 pages due to all the stuff going on — called the Student Loan Sidebar in our local Cramdown publication to all bankruptcy practitioners including debtor attorneys, the creditors’ bar and our judiciary. Because not everyone has access to this publication, we…

The United States Trustee Program (USTP) has resumed audits of individual chapter 7 and chapter 13 bankruptcy cases under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 on March 13 ,2023. What does this mean if your case is selected? The USTP contracts with independent firms, utilizing certified…

Our ad came out in the Hillsborough County Lawyer Magazine today for our new Workspaces in South Tampa.  Yay!  During the pandemic when our team started working remotely, we fully renovated our office space to offer a “sometimes” office as needed for both us and our colleagues.  We offer several…

A bankruptcy claims trading platform called Xclaim just closed a $7 million fund raising round after adding a focus toward crypto claims. If you have funds stuck in one of several centralized crypto related companies which filed bankruptcy last year, this may be of interest to you.  I have no…

“It is now time”, states Judge Klein who is charting a path for discharging student loans without being reversed.  For years, bankruptcy judges were wary of ruling in favor of debtors who asked for a discharge of federal student loan debt.  In part, because those Judges knew their rulings would…

One of the little known facts in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy, is that someone can repay a vehicle loan using the Till rate of interest rather than contract rate, as well as value the vehicle at it’s current market value.  That can be important if the vehicle is “underwater” and…

As of April 1, the new Means Test tables are coming out: Family size 1:  $60,429 2:  $74,131 3:  $83,396 4:  $100,476 What this means is that if you believed you wouldn’t qualify to file bankruptcy due to your income, think again!  The numbers are going up tomorrow!  

I know I posted about this before, but it bears repeating as I fear many homeowners will lose their home to foreclosure if they don’t know about this very important rule change last summer. Important new change for opposing MFSJ for those living in Florida.  Don’t expect to just show…

By now everyone (our attorney friends) has probably watched a CLE on the new DOJ Guidance to discharge federal student loans, but do you really understand how to do the process? We are on a panel set up by the Bransons in Orlando doing an all-day workshop via Zoom on…