Category Archives: potential lawsuits

How the Dodgers’ Bankruptcy Altered a Divorce Settlement

The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. The filing provides a good opportunity to take a look at the often complex intersection of bankruptcy law and divorce law.
The Dodgers’ owner, Frank McCourt, has been going through a divorce for the past couple of years. One of the issues [...]

Debt collection: Can a creditor clean out your bank account?

Bankruptcy work is rife with questions about debt collection. The most common question for me is: Help, I owe [fill in the blank] a lot of money! Can a creditor just take money out of my bank account?
At least in New Jersey, the answer to this question is yes and no. [...]

Could you sue? List it in your bankruptcy papers.

You should always list potential claims, or potential lawsuits, that you have against someone else along with all of your other assets, because the law considers them to be assets and if you don’t list them, you could lose them forever.