FRANKFORT — Kentucky’s jobless rate reached a 26-year high of 10.9 percent in June, up slightly from a 10.7 percent unemployment rate in May. Unemployment rates have not been this high since August 1983, when the jobless rate was 11.1 percent, according to the...

New York - U.S. home foreclosure activity galloped to a record in the first half of the year, overwhelming broad efforts to remedy failing loans while job losses escalated.  Full article: http://www.truthout.org/071609A?n

  Atlanta Bankruptcy Lawyer Jonathan Ginsberg provides some good insight on how to deal with an inheritance when you are in bankruptcy: http://www.thebklawyer.com/thebkblog/2009/07/11/an-unexpected-inheritance-while-in-chapter-7/

A very interesting article from Russell A. DeMott, Charleston Bankruptcy Lawyer from the Bankruptcy Law Network.  We all need to be aware of the toll that the stress of debt has on our clients:...

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/bankruptcyprof_blog/2009/07/bankruptcy-filings-rise-slightly-in-june.html Hat tip to the blog of M. Jonathan Hayes Adjunct Faculty Member Univ. of West Los Angeles School of Law for this information !

http://alabk.blogspot.com/2009/06/debt-collectors-now-using-myspace-and.html Thanks to Alabama Bankruptcy attorney Vonda S. McLeod for this informative article from her blog pointing out a scary new trend in the collection of debts !