Melanie I. Wiener writes: Brave creditors who venture into Surrogate's Court often face costly and practical obstacles (i.e., proving a debtor's genealogy) and ineffective enforcement mechanisms (i.e.

for Van Horn Law Group, P.A. Household debt rose .6% in the first quarter of 2021 — and it’s likely to grow. With job losses, medical bills and rising costs for everything from food to housing, it’s ...

Conducting business with a financially distressed or bankrupt entity can be a risky proposition. Knowing your rights as a creditor and when to timely engage a creditors’ rights attorney may be the ...

When a business's customer fails to pay his or her debts, the business (as a "creditor" to which the debt is owed) has several available remedies to help collect the money from the customer (as ...

Career mentors: The Hon. Douglas O. Tice Jr., retired chief judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia; and Lynn L. Tavenner, Esquire, the other founding member ...

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In our practice, we are often surprised that clients, accountants and many attorneys are not fully familiar with the rights of creditors against property owned by tenants by the entirety. As noted by ...

Career mentors: Judge Bonney, who helped me to understand the bankruptcy process, and Ross Reeves, one of the smartest people I’ve had the privilege to know. What trends are you seeing in bankruptcy ...