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 !

In re Buck,(Bkrtcy.E.D.N.C.) Discharge Debtor-farmer's conversion of lender's collateral was in nature of "willful and malicious" injury. A Chapter 7 debtor's conversion of a lender's collateral, in allowing his brother to keep a portion of the crop proceeds that...