by Dave Gormley | Posted in Bankruptcy & Foreclosure | Reading Time: 4 minutes
Filing for bankruptcy will probably not affect your credit as much as you think. If you are in a situation where bankruptcy is an option, your credit is probably bad already. So a bankruptcy may not do nearly as much damage as you may think. All credit reports will show your bankruptcy for a period...
by Dave Gormley | Posted in Bankruptcy & Foreclosure | Reading Time: 5 minutes
The main reason to get a free bankruptcy consultation is to figure out your options. Once you know your options you can make informed, intelligent decisions. What about waiting? Is that an option? Why take action now? What many people do not know is that IF you are going to have to file for bankruptcy,...
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Personal Injury | Reading Time: 5 minutes
Your primary concern after suffering any sort of personal injury in Waldorf, Maryland should be getting quality medical care and getting well. Believe it or not, this can actually be fairly difficult. Why? Because our health insurance system, and the laws governing it, are a hot mess! The doctors are getting jerked around by the...
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Wills & Estates | Reading Time: 4 minutes
A Guide to Writing a Complementary Letter with Your Will This is the suggested format of a letter we suggest you write in our Free Legal Consumer Guide to making a will. This letter is not legally binding, but it goes with your will just to make things easier for your heirs after your death....
by Nasheia Conway | Posted in Family Law | Reading Time: 4 minutes
Each tax filing season can bring up thorny issues that will affect couples long after they’ve separated. Unless ex-spouses can set aside their differences, one or both partners will often end up overpaying. For example, one tax preparer in a Wall Street Journal story told of a tax return he did where the wife was...
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Civil Law & Consumer | Reading Time: 7 minutes
by Dave Gormley | Posted in Civil Law & Consumer | Reading Time: 7 minutes
by Dave Gormley | Posted in Bankruptcy & Foreclosure | Reading Time: 4 minutes
As a bankruptcy lawyer in Southern Maryland, I know people will be asking me what to do with their government stimulus check. To make sure I was ready to answer this question, I figured I would look at what advice financial experts are giving. The advice I read seemed to be the same advice that...
by Dave Gormley | Posted in Bankruptcy & Foreclosure | Reading Time: 6 minutes
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...
by Nasheia Conway | Posted in Family Law | Reading Time: 4 minutes
Maryland divorce cases got harder to resolve after the 2017 tax law. Alimony is now treated completely differently for tax purposes. While the law was passed in 2017 the changes take effect for tax year 2019. Alimony is a complicated subject in a Maryland divorce. Click here to read our post answering all of your...
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