Effect of Bankruptcy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAnd then there is the effect of bankruptcy on your post-divorce debt issues. There are numerous potential issues here. One involves the impact that a bankruptcy filing by your spouse would have on the joint marital debt you are still liable on. Another issue is whether you, yourself, should file for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n
Talk with an experienced bankruptcy lawyer in your area to discuss your specific situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Divorce and debt can be a double whammy. It’s not only the fact that the stress of money problems is a frequent cause of divorce. That is indeed a major problem. But the issue goes beyond the cause of the divorce to the way that debts get divided up when divorce does occur – and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}