You can protect the equity in your home if the amount of equity is no more than the homestead exemption applicable to residents of your state.
Our last two blog posts outlined 15 separate ways that bankruptcy can protect your home now and/or in the future. We’ll be explaining each one of these ways in 15 separate blog posts. Here is the first one—protecting present and future equity in your home through Chapter 7 “straight bankruptcy.”
...If your home is exposed to your creditors and to the Chapter 7 trustee because it has too much equity, Chapter 13 can protect that equity.
In our July 1 blog post we gave a list of 10 ways that a Chapter 13 “adjustment of debts” case can help you keep your home. Today we’re on the 10th one on that list. This one’s about saving your home and its equity when that equity is larger than the allowed homestead exemption.
...If your home is at risk because you have more equity than the amount of the homestead exemption, Chapter 7 might still save your home.
In our July 1 blog post we gave a list of 10 ways that a Chapter 13 “adjustment of debts” case can help you keep your home. Next time we’ll finish this off with the last of those 10 ways. But today we take a detour. We show how filing a Chapter 13 case, lasting 3 to 5 years, might not be necessary to save your home and its equity even if the amount of that equity is larger than what is protected by your homestead exemption. Chapter 7 may be enough.
...Bankruptcy law sets a maximum dollar amount of protection for your recently-bought home, but this really applies only to certain states.
Our last blog post a couple days ago was about protecting retirement funds in bankruptcy. Today’s is about protecting your home, specifically if you bought your home within the last few years.
...Most homeowners contemplating bankruptcy have their home equity protected by their homestead exemption. If not, consider Chapter 13.
The Homestead Exemption
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