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Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago | Viewed 49 times
Jim Molleur attended the 20th Annual NACBA Conference in San Antonio, Texas recently. NACBA (National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys) is the largest and most respected consumer bankruptcy attorney organization in the country and actively advances issues important to consumer bankruptcy debtors to the Courts, state legislatures, an...
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Posted on 03/16/2012 at 04:15 pm | Viewed 320 times
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND FAQ's FOR CLIENTS ENTERING THE CHAPTER 13 PROCESS
When do I make my first trustee payment?
Your first trustee payment is due 30 days from the day your case is filed. You will not receive a statement although you should receive a “welcome” packet from the trustee’s office. Your case has been carefully configu...
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Posted on 03/11/2012 at 01:00 am | Viewed 201 times
On October 1, 2010, five Maine residents represented by Andrea Bopp Stark of Molleur Law, Thomas Cox, the National Consumer Law Center and the Center for Responsible Lending, filed a complaint against GMAC Mortgage, LLC (GMAC) on behalf of themselves and a class of Maine homeowners, alleging that the company routinely and systematically files fa...
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Posted on 03/11/2012 at 12:00 am | Viewed 235 times
The Maine Bankruptcy Court issued two decisions in the fall of 2011 regarding whether certain debts arising from a divorce judgment were in the nature of domestic support obligations (DSOs) or were property divisions. The cases have somewhat similar factual patterns, but the Court concluded the debt in one case was a DSO, while found the debt i...
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Posted on 01/12/2012 at 03:47 pm | Viewed 348 times
Molleur Law Office is pleased to announce that Tanya Sambatakos, Andrea Bopp Stark, and Jennifer Hayden have become members of Molleur Law Office effective January 1, 2012. Molleur Law Office is a Limited Liability Company (LLC) and attorneys who gain an ownership interest in the office become members in the LLC, in the same way that shareholde...
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Posted on 11/27/2011 at 04:00 pm | Viewed 490 times
There are several repayment options that student loan borrowers may have, depending on the type of student loans they have. Often, the type of student loan, federal vs. private, dictates the repayment options for the borrower. Many student loan companies don’t tell their customers about the options available, particularly if the borrower is cu...
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Posted on 11/27/2011 at 04:00 pm | Viewed 400 times
This fall, attorneys Jennifer G. Hayden and Andrea Bopp Stark attended bankruptcy conferences. In October, Jen attended the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) Annual Members Only Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Jen attended the two day mortgage/foreclosure track presented by national experts such as John...
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Posted on 07/24/2011 at 08:30 pm | Viewed 898 times
On June 23, 2011, the Supreme Court decided Stern v. Marshall. Vicki Marshall, otherwise known as Anna Nicole Smith, married a billionaire; after her husband died, his son Pierce Marshall sued Vicki in probate court asserting that she had tortious interfered with his inheritance. Vicki filed bankruptcy, and Pierce filed a complaint against her...
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Posted on 06/06/2011 at 04:30 am | Viewed 1,192 times
The Maine Bankruptcy Court recently ruled in Canning v. Beneficial Maine and HSBC that Beneficial Maine and HSBC violated the discharge injunction when they sent notices seeking payment of money for a discharged debt on real estate that the debtors surrendered in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case. The Court awarded modest damages against Beneficial M...
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Posted on 02/01/2011 at 04:15 am | Viewed 1,603 times
The US Supreme Court recently decided the case of Ransom v. FIA Card Services in which the Court ruled on a debtor's ability to claim vehicle ownership expenses on the means test where the debtor has no loan on the vehicle. The means test permits debtors to claim certain expenses for the operation of their vehicles, and other expenses for the o...
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