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		<title>Chapter 13 Debt Limits increasing on April 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New Home Sales hit Record Low Last Month</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.los-angeles-bankruptcy.net/2010/02/new-home-sales-hit-record-low-last-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was reported this morning that the sales of new houses hit a record low in January 2010.  This is reported as if it&#8217;s a bad thing.
Remember the heady days of the housing bubble.  Home prices were frothing over the top. Bubbling higher and higher every month.  There were articles written about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qualifying for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy: The Means Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At our sister website, Los Angeles Bankruptcy.net, there&#8217;s a new brief article that explains what is this mysterious form that is the gatekeeper to Chapter 7 (the faster kind) of bankruptcy.  It points to a very simple version of an online means test.panama casino FDA
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		<title>Blockbuster files Bankruptcy in Portugal</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.los-angeles-bankruptcy.net/2010/02/blockbuster-files-bankruptcy-in-portugal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blockbuster video (what&#8217;s a video?) filed bankruptcy in Portugal, citing piracy as a leading contributor to the problem.  Of course, a reason for the financial woes could also be Netflix, the ease of getting movies from home, failing to adapt to a changing world, and oh, by-the-way, egregious late fees and charging $90 for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qualifying for Chapter 7 BK: Means Test numbers to Change in March 2010</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.los-angeles-bankruptcy.net/2010/02/means-test-numbers-to-change-in-march-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice announced today that the numbers used for the Means Test will be adjusted next month. It is conceivable that someone could qualify for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in February and not after the figures that are part of the bankruptcy reform take effect in March 2010.  Timing is everything in Means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama 2nd Mortgage Plan Still Not Launched After 9 Months</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post reports that a mortgage program announced in April 2009 hasn&#8217;t officially launched yet.
The program, a component of the administration&#8217;s $75 billion Making Home Affordable effort, was supposed to attack second-lien mortgages, which are additional, second mortgages taken out on a home on top of the initial first mortgage. It&#8217;s like taking out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge wipes out couple’s mortgage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In New York, a judge decided to cancel the mortgage of a Long Island homeowner because the mortgage lender wasn&#8217;t working with the borrower.  
We agree that this is a dangerous precedent, and that we can&#8217;t have judges wiping out contracts willy-nilly.  However, there is a proper venue and forum for mortgage adjustments, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Homestead Exemptions Increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can protect more of your home&#8217;s equity, starting on January 1, 2010.  This means that instead of protecting $50,000 and $75,000 of your home&#8217;s equity when you file bankruptcy if single or married (respectively), now you can save more when you file bankruptcy.   Starting with the new year, you&#8217;ll be able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homebuyer Handout: Cash for Clunkers for Casas?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LosAngelesBankruptcy/~3/hety9dxTmLw/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.los-angeles-bankruptcy.net/2009/10/homebuyer-handout-cash-for-clunkers-for-casas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barrons has a blurb about how $21,000 handout for houses could take the failed Cash for Clunkers program to a new level.
As with the clunker cash, Uncle Sam is giving money to folks to do what they would have done anyway. Cash for clunkers temporarily juiced auto sales in August, but they fell back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Card Fee:  Pay Off your Balances</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.los-angeles-bankruptcy.net/2009/10/credit-card-fee-pay-off-your-balances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are new credit card laws supposedly to protect the consumer from the credit cards.  You know all the things you&#8217;re supposed to do in order to manage your finances.  Dealing with high interest rates is not one of them.  Therefore, you want to keep your balances on your credit cards low, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I Calculate my Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Plan Payment?</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.los-angeles-bankruptcy.net/2009/10/how-do-i-calculate-my-chapter-13-bankruptcy-plan-payment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Los Angeles bankruptcy attorney, I take great interest in your post about Chapter 13 bankruptcy plan payments. You&#8217;re right that it&#8217;s an extremely budget-intensive exercise. Priority debt and arrearages can complicate matters. Ditto for a liquidation analysis. Does a Chapter 7, after factoring in allowable exemptions allow greater distribution than the Chapter 13 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployment rises to almost ten percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems we&#8217;re at 9.8 percent unemployment.
Or, put differently, we lost over a quarter-million jobs last month.
If you&#8217;re having a tough time, you&#8217;re not alone.  From the people I talk to in my office, many more are being forced to take pay cuts or even furloughs.
Hang in there.
UPDATE: Because many people are taking early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Seekers exceed Job Openings by Record Ratio</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LosAngelesBankruptcy/~3/7ZemxvRftVQ/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.los-angeles-bankruptcy.net/2009/09/job-seekers-exceed-job-openings-by-record-ratio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are things getting better?  By one measure &#8212; jobs &#8212; they&#8217;re getting worse.  More people, as a percentage, are looking for jobs that don&#8217;t exist than ever before.
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		<title>California Unemployment Rate at Record High</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.los-angeles-bankruptcy.net/2009/09/california-unemployment-rate-at-record-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News out today from Bloomberg shows that California has reached record highs in joblessness.  The current unemployment rate in the Golden State is now 12.2%.
Nationally, the unemployment rate is at a 26-year high in August, at 9.7%.
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		<title>Los Angeles Bankruptcy - Twitter!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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