Blog Posts in 2010

Mr. Fear will be speaking at a Sterling Education Seminar on February 3, 2011, on the topic “When the Tenant Files Bankruptcy.” The title for the program is “Commercial & Residential Landlord Tenants ...

When you hire a bankruptcy lawyer, you probably assume that lawyer or another attorney from that lawyer’s firm will be with you when you “go to court.” (The technical name for the court hearing is the ...

Whenever a document is recorded with a county recorder, the recording party must pay a recording fee. This includes the initial filing of a mortgage or deed of trust (they are essentially identical in ...

Nationwide, consumer bankruptcy filings rose 11% in the first three quarters of 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009. Interestingly, the filings in the Eastern District of California (approx. ...

The FTC enacted a new rule, effective October 27, 2010, that will ban debt negotiators from collecting an advance fee before the debt has been negotiated . This is a serious problem, as I have ...

The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel castigated Wells Fargo for a practice that has been the bane of many debtors and their counsel. Wells Fargo has a procedure whereby it automatically ...