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As an attorney who meets with clients in difficult financial situations every day, I can say with certainty that there is still a stigma associated with filing bankruptcy.  However, if you stop and think about it, I think you’ll realize that bankruptcy is a part of what makes America great.

Recently, the City of Jackson, Mississippi settled a federal class action lawsuit that challenged the use of debtors’ prisons. The civil rights group Equal Justice Under Law and the Roderick and Solange Macarthur Justice Center of the University of Mississippi School of Law filed the lawsuit on behalf of seven plaintiffs.

I recently received a kind and thoughtful email from the father of a service member that I represented years ago.  The email read as follows:

F. Lee Bailey filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy relief on June 24, 2016.

You may recall my blog post from a few weeks ago about how Kentucky attorney Eric Conn, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) David Daugherty and Dr. Alfred Adkins among others allegedly conspired together to defraud the U.S.

On this past Tuesday, the Honorable Jason Woodard spoke in Columbus, Mississippi about what bankruptcy is and why it is necessary for some people in Mississippi. Judge Woodard is the Chief U. S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi.

Before deciding if a debt can be discharged in a bankruptcy, it must be determined whether the debt is a type that can or cannot be discharged.  This sounds simple enough but when it comes to divorce and whether or not a debt is a domestic support obligation, it can be much more complicat

Gawker Media, the sometimes disrespectful and contemptuous online media news and gossip blog, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

If you are permanently disabled, you may qualify to have your federal student loans discharged by the Department of Education.  This only applies to federal student loans and is NOT a bankruptcy discharge.

Cancer and Bankruptcy? Unfortunately, these two issues, one medical and one legal, many times go hand in hand. A recent report by Reuters Health citing a study conducted by Dr.