For many people, going through bankruptcy turns out to be the one of the best things they’ve ever done. So much so, it makes them blissful to recount why…. Read more>>
Bliss After Bankruptcy
Life Lessons
Hard Truths for Debtors Who Procrastinate
Since the fall, I have seen a big uptick in desperate people calling me for tax or bankruptcy help. What kind of desperation? These people have been either on the IRS’s radar, or been having debt problems, for many years and then the crisis hits: the IRS puts a lien on a house, or a creditor gets a default judgment and the sheriff Read more »
Considering Bankruptcy? Tip 6 – Don’t Feel Ashamed
Many clients feel shame about filing for bankruptcy protection. I can tell because they tell me repeatedly that they never thought they would be talking to a lawyer about bankruptcy, Read more »
Faucher Family Farms – Where Hens Are Workers
This Washington Post article, about a doctor’s flock of backyard chickens, prompts today’s update on my hens. Regular readers of my Newsletter know I’ve been raising chickens for almost 5 years – Read more »
Why I Practice Tax Law
My life left the path of “average” when my father, a research chemist, received a posting in his company’s sales division in Geneva, Switzerland. I was eight years old at Read more »
A Dream Job
I love what I do. Intervening on behalf of my clients in tax audits, or helping people shed crippling debt, allows me to (1) draw on prior professional experience at the IRS and elsewhere, Read more >>
Bankruptcy, Humility & Happiness
I have a bankruptcy client who had been a high-earning executive with an ad agency. But he lost his job, savings and even retirement nest egg in the real estate crash. He now lives in a rental in the Valley Read more >>
How I Help Doctors Get Financially Well
It used to be that a medical degree was a ticket to a relatively secure life: in exchange for spending years achieving at school and amassing formidable learning, and just showing up at your practice for 50 or more hours a week Read more >>
Bankruptcy Is a Form Of Redemption, Not Failure
I like to say that I am involved in “capitalist recycling.” In a capitalist, free-market society, there are people who win and there are people who lose. Those people who do not win and cannot function economically because of crushing debt Read more >>
What Doctors Taught Me About My Job and My Clients
In the last three years, my wife and I have lost three of our four parents: two parents died of lung cancer, one of Parkinson’s Disease. In each case, I was Read more »