Discharging a student loan requires showing undue hardship. The timing of your Chapter 7 filing can determine whether you succeed in this.
We’re in a series on the smart timing of your bankruptcy case. Last week we introduced the special condition you must meet to discharge (write off) student loans: “undue hardship.”
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Discharging—permanently writing off—student loans can be difficult. You may be able to make it easier to do with good bankruptcy timing.
It takes certain circumstances to discharge student loans. Those circumstances can involve the right timing of your bankruptcy case.
...A bankruptcy covers the debts you owe as of the moment you file your case, not future debts. So how do you know when to file your case?
In last week’s blog post we introduced how to time your bankruptcy filing. We gave a list of 15 examples of timing considerations. Today we start with the first example: timing your bankruptcy filing so that it covers as many debts as possible.
...If you’re considering filing bankruptcy, what debts can you incur and which should you avoid? What are the possible consequences?
Two weeks ago we listed 5 crucial things you’d benefit from learning about if you’re thinking about bankruptcy:
...Bankruptcy frees up cash flow for your mortgage payments. Chapter 7 does so by writing off other debts. Chapter 13 does so more creatively.
A Chapter 7 “straight bankruptcy” case would very likely quickly write off (“discharge”) many of your debts. For many people it discharges most of their debts, maybe even all of them except their home mortgage. That frees up cash flow so that you can better afford to pay your mortgage.
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