Bankruptcy – A Matter of Pride
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Bankruptcy: A Matter of Pride
Bankruptcy is a financial technique in which you declare that you cannot
repay your creditors now or see a way to repay them in the future.
Depending on your income and the amount of money you owe, an individual may
declare chapter 7 or chapter 13 bankruptcies. However, in either case,
bankruptcy is a fairly public affair. Your name and address will be
published in at least one of the local newspapers for all of your friends
to read, and your neighbors will see movers coming to repossess some of
your items. For many people, the worst part of bankruptcy isn’t losing the
money; it’s losing pride and dignity.
The first way to deal with this is to realize that most of your friends and
family have gone through money problems at one time or another in their
lives. Although they may not have resorted (more…)