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Discharging a student loan requires meeting the difficult condition called undue hardship. Chapter 13 can help through more flexible timing.

There are many mistakes you could make with your estate plan. We have all seen stories of celebrities who passed away with problematic estates. When Prince died in 2016, he did not leave an estate or will behind. Prince is not the only celebrity to make mistakes with estate planning.

Discharging a student loan requires showing undue hardship. The timing of your Chapter 7 filing can determine whether you succeed in this.

Discharging—permanently writing off—student loans can be difficult. You may be able to make it easier to do with good bankruptcy timing.

Very recent credit card purchases and cash advances can be a problem when filing bankruptcy. Smart timing can mostly solve this problem.

You can avoid the presumptions of fraud, and so discharge more of your credit card debts, by timing your bankruptcy filing right.

The current federal eviction moratorium comes with a number of qualifications and conditions. Be aware of them. It’s a limited but helpful tool.

Chapter 7 is very limited in helping avoid a support lien. Chapter 13 is much more powerful, as long as you precisely meet some conditions.

Use Chapter 13 to catch up on back rent that piles up during the eviction moratorium, so that you can stay in your rental long term.

The CDC’s recent order stopping all U.S. residential evictions gives you a new tool to use with some wise bankruptcy planning.