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		<title>My Bankruptcy Case Was Dismissed, Now What Do I Do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Bankruptcy dismissal is scary, it can happen to the best of us; but it doesn&#8217;t have to be the end of the world. If your bankruptcy case was dismissed, you need to first contact your bankruptcy attorney. Or, if you attempted to file bankruptcy without an attorney and your bankruptcy case was dismissed, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Fishy About Your Student Loan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As we have discussed on this blog many times, student loans can be a financial thorn in the side of many debtors. There are nearly impossible to discharge and they eat away at debtor&#8217;s assets for years after they&#8217;ve graduated from college. But there&#8217;s something else fishy about student loans that many students need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allmandandlee.com/bankruptcy_blog/student-loans/something-fishy-about-your-student-loan/</link>
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		<title>Even Churches Are Facing Foreclosure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ There&#8217;s an interesting article at the New York Times about how a record number of churches are facing foreclosure as the credit crisis seizes every sector of American life. During the real estate boom many churches took advantage of easy credit and expanded. Banks, eager to cash in lent money based on the hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allmandandlee.com/bankruptcy_blog/foreclosures/even-churches-are-facing-foreclosure/</link>
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		<title>Delaying An Inevitable Bankruptcy May Delay Debtor&#8217;s Chance To Rebuild Financially</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Drowning in debt and struggling with looming foreclosure, many homeowners in slumping markets such as Dallas-Fort Worth are looking to bankruptcy to help them rebuild their financial lives. Many debtors facing foreclosure or other urgent debts delay bankruptcy because they fear the impact it will have on their credit score. Well the truth of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allmandandlee.com/bankruptcy_blog/foreclosures/delaying-an-inevitable-bankruptcy-may-delay-debtors-chance-to-rebuild-financially/</link>
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		<title>Married Debtors Filing Chapter 7 Bankruptcy And Means Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Here&#8217;s another reason why many debtors filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy without the help of a bankruptcy attorney find themselves in a heap of financial trouble. Most debtors who are married but filing alone don&#8217;t understand that they will be required to use a means test form to determine their eligibility for Chapter 7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Executives Get Biggest Bailout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to an article in the Dallas Morning News, nearly bankrupt banks who received the multi-billion dollar taxpayer funded bailout rewarded their top executives with nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses and other benefits in 2007.  Personal use of company planes, private drivers, company funded financial planners and country club memberships were just a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allmandandlee.com/bankruptcy_blog/breaking-news/bank-executives-get-biggest-bailout/</link>
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		<title>Texas Gives Seniors A Break With Long-Term Health care Insurance Partnerships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dallas Morning News reports that in 2009 Texas will allow senior citizens with long-term healthcare insurance to keep more of their personal savings if they need to use Medicaid.  Texas insurance officials will offer &#8220;private partnership policies&#8221; that will offer asset matching protection for those who purchase long-term healthcare insurance.  For every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allmandandlee.com/bankruptcy_blog/breaking-news/texas-gives-seniors-a-break-with-long-term-health-care-insurance-partnerships/</link>
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		<title>Automakers Helped Make America Rich, Will They Now Bankrupt Us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports that despite the $17.4 billion lifeline given to automakers last week, GM is still laying off 1,080 workers on Tuesday.  So far, GM has sent 11,000 American workers to the unemployment line and that&#8217;s just in 2008 alone.  For decades automakers such as GM have employed tens of thousands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allmandandlee.com/bankruptcy_blog/job_loss_unemployment/automakers-helped-make-america-rich-will-they-now-bankrupt-us/</link>
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		<title>Foreign Automakers Feel US Economic Pinch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports that Toyota&#8217;s U.S. car sales fell to their lowest point in more than 26 years as Americans reign in their budgets and battle job losses and the difficulty of finding car loans.  Also, many consumers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are delaying big purchases such as buying a new car [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allmandandlee.com/bankruptcy_blog/credit-crisis/foreign-automakers-feel-us-economic-pinch/</link>
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		<title>How Much Will I Need To Pay In Chapter 13 Bankruptcy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often debtors filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy want to know what their monthly repayment plan will cost. It&#8217;s impossible for a bankruptcy attorney to give a debtor an exact dollar amount; but there are four factors that help determine how much money a Chapter 13 bankruptcy debtor will be required to pay.

The first factor is [...]]]></description>
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