Bankruptcy Articles
- 5 Tips to Understanding Your Retirement Options — Traditionally, pensions have been the gold standard of retirement plans. Let's face it, if you have the option of funding your own retirement or having someone else do it for you, you'd take the free ride, right?
- Bankruptcy — The statistics can be very depressing. Personal savings rates are at some of their lowest points in history. At the same time, consumers are carrying an ever increasing load of personal debt. Most people have only enough cash in the bank to see them through a couple of weeks at the most. Many people have even less than that and some people may have no emergency cash available.
- Bankruptcy No Longer Offers A New Beginning — Families showing the ability to pay off debt over the long term will no longer qualify for Chapter 7 bankruptcy under the new bankruptcy laws.
- Estate Planning Ensures Your Assets are Protected — An effective plan will ensure that ownership and control of your assets passes to your intended beneficiaries in the correct proportions and in a way that minimizes the amount of tax taken out on the income and capital gains earned on those assets.
- How to Copy the Wealthy — aybe you can live -- and die -- without them. Wealthy Americans often use a fistful of trusts to slash estate taxes, avoid probate and control how their money is divvied up.
- New Bankruptcy Laws Scare Off Entrepreneurs — Entrepreneurship will likely decrease with the new bankruptcy laws, and those already in business will be forced to take less risk.
- Retirement Plans Offered Protection Under New Bankruptcy Laws — If you are planning to file for bankruptcy, your retirement assets will be offered some amount of protection.
