Exempt Assets

Planning And Paying For Long-Term Care (Part 6 In A Series: Medicaid/Medical Assistance)

In Part 5, I discussed the issue of “excess” assets and the “spend-down” process in Medical Assistance. Apart from a couple’s exempt assets (house, one car, household furnishings, etc.), the remaining assets are “countable”...more

Bill on Bankruptcy: Lawyers Easily Make Simple Words Complicated  [Video]

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- With $64 million at stake for creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., lawyers can find complexity even in simple words like "immediately proceeding," as Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg...more

Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat: The Significance of Domicile Planning

A debtor, regardless of state residence, can seek protection from his or her creditors in the federal bankruptcy courts. However, the state in which the debtor resides or, more accurately, is "domiciled," will determine which...more

Rogers Towers: Surcharge of Debtor’s Exempt Assets Allowed when Debtor Willfully Conceals Non-Exempt Assets

Concealing assets from the Bankruptcy Court rarely, if ever, turns out well for a debtor. In a recent First Circuit case, a debtor concealed proceeds from prepetition sale of his former marital home, claiming that all of the...more