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The key players in bankruptcy are the debtor, creditors, the bankruptcy clerk and judge, and the bankruptcy trustee and the U.S. Trustee.

You can’t complete a personal bankruptcy and receive a discharge of debts without meeting the so-called debtor education requirement.

The credit counseling requirement is not at all hard to meet. You have to do it before you can file a bankruptcy case, so get it over with.

Chapter 13 protects your co-signer better through the special co-debtor stay. It has its own limits but provides the strongest protection.

Chapter 7 bankruptcy helps you protect your co-signer, mostly by discharging your other debts so that you can pay the co-signed one.

Bankruptcy protects you from your co-signed creditor and also from your co-signer. Be sure to cover any legal obligation to your co-signer.

Filing bankruptcy mostly does not affect the collection of child or spousal support against you—except it can help in one very important way.

Here are 5 more facts to help clear up the many misconceptions about how bankruptcy affects income tax debts.

There are many misconceptions about how bankruptcy affects income tax debts. These facts will help make sense of this confusing arena.

Do you owe a debt that you think is secured by things like your furniture, appliances, electronics? How does bankruptcy deals with these?