Services for Attorneys
As debt law specialists, we frequently assist other attorneys with aspects of their client’s cases that our focus touches on. We most commonly assist criminal law, family law, and personal injury attorneys as well as other bankruptcy attorneys. Whether you need a consultation on bankruptcy and creditor-debtor legal issues, assistance in holding off creditors while you resolve your case, or pursue someone who has retreated into bankruptcy court, we can help. Call or email to see how we can help.
Attorney Services
We provide services to other attorneys in the areas of bankruptcy, creditor-debtor issues, and property related issues. We assist other bankruptcy and creditor-debtor attorneys with complicated cases to include adversary proceedings and defending against creditor actions. For other attorneys, our practice focuses on the creditor-debtor issues that come up during representation and can range from holding off a creditor while a personal injury case resolves to assisting with bankruptcy proofing a dissolution settlement and then resolving the debts afterward. The common areas that we assist other attorneys include bankruptcy attorneys on complex cases, criminal attorneys, family law attorneys, and personal injury attorneys. See below for our general referrals accepted and specific services for other attorneys.
General Referrals Accepted:
- Bankruptcy
- COA/HOA Issues (owner/tenant side only, not management)
- Collections (Limited to Family Law Debt Only- Alimony, Maintenance, Support, Property Settlements)
- Collections Defense
- Consumer Protection Litigation
- Foreclosure Defense (quiet title, standing arguments, CPA/FDCPA/DOTA issues, BK options)
- Landlord Tenant Litigation (collections defense and suits for damages)
- Lemon Law, Auto Dealer, Auto Repair, Auction, Tow Truck, Impound Issues (non-personal injury only)
- Military SCRA Issues, Security Clearance issues relating to debt
- Student Loans
Bankruptcy- How we can Help:
- All services below can be provided for debtor or creditor side. For practitioners who would like some extra firepower with adversary proceedings, defending against creditor actions, or handling creditor work, we can help. If a client of yours needs to file for bankruptcy protection and it is not a service you provide, we can assist with a business (ch 7 or ch 11) or personal (ch 7 or ch 13) bankruptcy.
- Adversary Proceedings
- Consumer Protection Litigation Inside Bankruptcy
- Motions for Relief
- Objections to Discharge
- Objections to Exemption
- Objections to Plan
- Proof of Claim or Objection to Proof of Claim
- Quiet Title & Foreclosure Defense Inside Bankruptcy
- Student Loan Discharge
Criminal Law- How we can Help:
- We do not handle criminal law cases, we only handle the financial fallout from such situations
- Bankruptcy Solutions from Chapter 7 Discharge to Chapter 13 Amortization of Undischargeable Debts
- Collections Defense Against LFO’s, Resitution, and Fines
- Counterclaims for Violations of Consumer Protection Statutes and Improper Judgment Calculations
- Defense Against Bail Bondsmen Claims
- Foreclosure Defense & Strategic Default Options
- Reduction of Interest on Criminal Debt
- Referrals for Post Conviction Appeals Regarding Failure to Consider Ability to Pay
Family Law- How we can Help:
- We do not handle dissolution or child custody issues, we only handle the debt/asset side from a bankruptcy & creditor-debtor rights perspective and debt strategies inside the dissolution.
- Bankruptcy
- Consult with you and your client on how to bankruptcy proof your settlement, avoid post disso hold harmless traps that make debts non-dischargeable in effect, and keep an escape hatch for you client to file bankruptcy and discharge assigned debts
- Individual (prior to trial or pre or post dissolution) or Cooperative Bankruptcy (pre disso only)
- Adversarial Litigation (objection to discharge, exemptions, etc)
- Proofs of Claim (filing or objecting to POC’s, ensuring proper treatment based on priority)
- Plan Objection (if a debt owed to your client is not given proper treatment or priority, defense against the same)
- Collections and Sale & Partition Actions
- Our firm only handles collection of maintenance, alimony, support, or debts originating from property settlements. We do not handle any other type of collections.
- Garnishment of Wages, Accounts, and Replevin
- Sale & Partition Actions if ex-spouse will not sell or refinance
- Debt Settlement (for debts owed to ex-spouse or to creditors)
- If the ex spouse, DSHS, or another creditor is collecting or might collect, we can help resolve the matter by finding leverage and settling the debt.
- Foreclosure Defense:
- If you were awarded the home and your ex is now trying to force a sale and partition, we can help defend against it. We can additionally help against other creditors, see our foreclosure defense page.
- Strategic Consultation with You and Your Client During, Prior to, or After Dissolution: Some debts are not dischargeable and hold harmless agreements can make an otherwise dischargeable now non-dischargeable. Property settlements can be discharged while debts in lieu of alimony, maintenance, and support may not be. We can help consult with you and/or your client to try to bankruptcy proof your dissolution and avoid assigned debts.
Personal Injury- How we can Help:
- We do not handle Personal Injury cases, we only assist in keeping creditors at bay while the injury case plays out and resolve accrued debts
- Bankruptcy
- Danger– Filing a Chapter 7 puts the trustee in the position of the debtor and they have the power to settle a big case for pennies. If a personal injury settlement that would come in above exempted amounts (generally $24,000.00 give or take), a chapter 7 should be avoided if possible and collection defense techniques should be used instead to delay. Chapter 13 has complications but can be used.
- Bankruptcy Services & Consultation in light of personal injury claims
- Collection Defense
- Generally– Personal injury often results in reduction of income (job loss, reduction of hours, inability to work). While a settlement or trial is pending, creditors often initiate collection suits. These suits can be fought via appearance, answering, discovery, and counterclaims. A well defended collection suit can push a trial or case out from six to twelve months and sometimes more.
- Medical Bills– Most hospitals do not want to wait to get paid and will send a bill to collections despite the case not being over. We can attack on the basis of charity care, failure to bill insurance, fraudulent billing, and other theories.
- Settlement-
- Consultation & Strategy
- We can meet with you and your client on strategy for avoiding debts, holding off creditors, counterclaims against creditors violating consumer protection laws, and review bankruptcy options. Our goal is to get you the proper amount of time to settle or go to trial and then find a way to deal with debts that have accrued from the personal injury case or over time as a result of the case.
- Foreclosure Defense
- If your mortgage holder, COA, HOA, or other secured entity with interest begins foreclosure proceedings or threatens to do so due to the inability to pay resulting from a personal injury case, we can help slow down, delay, or resolve the situation.
