by John Rogers | Jun 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
By GRETA LaMOUNTAIN, Esq. Consumer clients often come to bankruptcy lawyers when they have been battling for weeks or months, trying to determine which bills to pay and which can be delayed or avoided in the face of financial hardship and distress. Otherwise...
by John Rogers | Jun 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:33am EDT By Lynn Adler NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. foreclosure activity for May ebbed from April’s record, but mortgages still failed at a staggering pace as President Barack Obama’s rescue programs had not had time to fully take...
by John Rogers | Jun 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Wednesday – June 10, 2009 In re Powell, No. 08-82538, 2009 WL 910407, at *4–*5 (Bankr. C.D. Ill. Apr. 1, 2009) (Perkins) Applying In re Smith, 286 F.3d 461 (7th Cir. 2002), that debtor borrowed $1,500 three days before petition and used $500 for bankruptcy attorney...
by John Rogers | Jun 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in a case in which the Eighth Circuit interpreted the term “debt relief agency,” for purposes of an amendment to the Bankruptcy Code prohibiting a debt relief agency from advising a client to incur...
by John Rogers | Jun 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
The law office of John Rogers is located in Glasgow, Kentucky, and focuses its practice in the areas of bankruptcy. We limit our bankruptcy practice to chapter 7 bankruptcy law, often called straight bankruptcy, and chapter 11 bankruptcy law, a reorganization process...