A short sale (also called a pre-foreclosure sale) is one of your options to prevent a foreclosure on your home. To see a complete list of your options, click here and read our Free Legal Consumer Guide about Foreclosures. And you need to explore your options with an attorney before deciding if a short sale […]

Even if you have been keeping up with your bills, now is the time to do some emergency budgeting. Nobody knows how bad this will get. (Things have been changing fast. This post was published on March 14th. Not even a week later bars and malls were closed. Now the problem is even bigger. Unemployment […]

Virtual Consults Now in Waldorf & Southern Maryland With everyone in Waldorf and Southern Maryland having busy schedules, and many having long commutes, getting to your lawyer’s office can be a challenge. Because of this we have always been willing to do appointments and consultations by phone. Now with the with the corona virus going […]

Normally, the legal issue of who can claim the children will be something your lawyer will deal with during the divorce.

Think you will never be able to get a mortgage again if you file for bankruptcy?  In this video Dave Gormley discusses with Seanna Smallwood of Southern Trust Mortgage how a person with VA eligibility can get a mortgage while their Chapter 13 Bankruptcy is pending.

Sometimes when people come into our Waldorf or Lexington Park office they know exactly what type of bankruptcy they want to file. Other times a person just comes in to find out what options they may have. During your initial consultation we may even find that deciding what is the best bankruptcy option is a […]

If you are a real estate professional in Southern Maryland here are some bankruptcy basics that you need to know. Here is a slide share video of Dave Gormley giving a lunch and learn presentation to a group of real estate professionals in our office. Along with an overview of bankruptcy law you find some […]

Do you really know what insurance you need to cover you? Do you know what level of coverage will properly protect you? What if caused a car accident and the other person sued you? What if another person with no insurance (or too little insurance) caused an accident that injured you? What if your house […]

Maryland divorce cases got harder to resolve after the 2017 tax law. Alimony is now treated completely differently for tax purposes.

You have a pending Chapter 13 bankruptcy in Southern Maryland and your car has died or needs a huge repair. You may be surprised that you do have the option of getting a loan to buy a new or used car. What shouldn’t surprise you is that it is a bit of a pain, and […]

Will Robots Replace Your Attorney? If you think replacing lawyers with robots is a good idea (there are about a million lawyer jokes that come to mind when I write that), you may be in luck. A new report by a tech consulting firm says that within 15 years, robots will replace most lawyers. This […]

iling for bankruptcy may help you deal with your tax problems. While it is difficult to discharge tax debt, it is not impossible. If your tax debt is old enough, bankruptcy can help eliminate or reduce how much you have to pay back on your taxes. However even when the bankruptcy doesn't discharge the tax […]