Are the legal documents prepared online valid for filing bankruptcy?
There are significant amount of companies out there that are reputable legal document drafters. Filing for bankruptcy is quite a complex area of law and therefore you should try not to approach the field by yourself if you do not have experience. You can certainly instruct a company to prepare your bankruptcy document for you and then you can choose to either submit them yourself or get the company that drafted the documents to serve them for you.
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I want to change my birth name, can I change my name to any name I want?
In a word, yes but as you may well know there are always some restrictions put in place by statute and case law. The general restrictions that are put in place are as follows:
You cannot have a name that infringes anyone else’s civil rights for personal gain or with the intention of misleading for example you want to legally change your name to Brad Pitt. Unless you have a very good reason for changing …
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
What is Chapter Seven bankruptcy? This is also known as the straight bankruptcy or liquidation. This is used when you no longer have the capacity to settle your debts from the income you have.
The is a whole variety of reasons why you are unable to the pay your debts the most common being that you have lost your employment, the business is not doing so well, you have recently had to pay high medical bills etc.
Individuals as well as businesses can use chapter 7 bankruptcy and the reason …
WHAT IS A DBA?
DBA is short for “Doing Business As”, some states use Trading As shortened to T/A similar to the UK. It is also commonly known as an assumed name or fictitious name, these have to be registered with the county clerk or secretary of state.
A DBA is a name that is usually given to a business that you don’t want to incorporate just yet or you are sole proprietor who wants to give your business a name but don’t want it to be your legal personal name. For …
The thought of a loved one dying is hard to endure and the last thing you want to think about is applying for probate. Probate is the process that is initiated when a person dies to distribute the deceased estate to their families, friends and charities, these are called the “beneficiaries”, and to settle any debts for that person. It can, sometimes, become quite a complex issue, as each state has it own process of dealing with Probate.
Now if there is a Will the probate process becomes a little easier …