A guide to filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy includes tips and strategies on stopping wage garnishments and lawsuits, erasing qualifying debt, keeping as much property as possible, and rebuilding credit after bankruptcy.

"Would you rather pay more of your monthly income toward important bills like late house and car payments, and less toward credit card balances, overdue utility debt, and medical bills? If so, filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy might be the solution you're looking for. Our plain-English guide will help you: determine if you qualify for Chapter 13, learn how to catch up on your mortgage and keep your home, find out if you can reduce your car loan balance,...

" Not sure where to start? Let's find the right bankruptcy option for you. You know bankruptcy will help you get back on your financial feet. But which chapter type is best? The New Bankruptcy explains the benefits of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy. For instance, you'll learn that Chapter 7 will: (1)wipe out credit card balances, utility bills, and more (2)protect property you need to work and live, and (3)take about four to six months to complete....

Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan. To die before the money ran out, but things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank, who may or may...

Take a journey deep inside the American style of debt, where things seem fine as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Shocking and incisive, it paints a picture of a national nightmare which is all too real for most. "Two thumbs up!"--Roeper & David Edelstein "Hair-raising!"--New York Magazine "Genuinely entertaining."--Wall Street Journal "...amusing...enlightening, and positively riveting."--Washington Post "***...A solid piece...