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BLT (Bankruptcy Lawyer Topics) is a periodic review and comparison of consumer bankruptcy topics being covered on bankruptcy lawyer blogs.

Holding a J.D. and an International Affairs M.A. from Marquette University, Matt Leichter (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  Fearing the legal profession’s future, he has begun documenting the law school tuition bubble at his own blog, where you can read his latest post, “A Half-Hearted Defense of the Legal Services Cartel”.

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GENERAL or NON-STATE SPECIFIC

American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Bankruptcy Blog Exchange

• 6^th Circuit Determines that Negative Equity Financing can be Protected from Cramdown
• Underwater Mortgages in the U.S. by City

Bankruptcy Case Blog – St John’s University Law School

• Positive Treatment for Negative Equity

Bankruptcy Law Network

• Foreclosure: Should You Embrace It?
• Are You Behind on Your Mortgage?
• Who Decides about Reaffirming a Mortgage?
• South Carolina Bankruptcy Lawyer Unleashes Vulcan Intellect on the Hanging Paragraph
• Individual Chapter 11 Fact: You Can Always Cram Down Your Car
• Chapter 13 Debt Limit Qualifications
• Upside Down Car Loans Protected in 8^th Circuit
• Bankruptcy and the Upside-Down House: American Dream a Nightmare?
• Fourth Circuit Rules that the “Hanging Paragraph” Protects Negative Equity
• Underwater Trade-In not Protected Claim in Bankruptcy
• Owe More than Your Car Is Worth?
• Upside Down Car Loans in Missouri, Redux

CreditSlips.org

• Does Securitization Affect Loan Modification?
• Is Redefault Risk Preventing Mortgage Loan Mods?
• The Other Underwater Loans: Negative Equity in Auto Finance

Consumer Law & Policy Blog

• Moral Hazard, Strategic Default, and Debt Reduction
• HAMP Homeowners Stuck in Limbo

National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA)

• December Amicus Project Update

***SEE MORE BLOG POSTS FROM BANKRUPTCY LAWYERS AROUND THE U.S.***

TEXAS

Reed Allmand, Esq. (Allmand & Lee) – Reed’s Bankruptcy Attorney Blog (Dallas and Ft. Worth, TX)

• Can I Reduce My Car Loan Interest Payments in Bankruptcy?
• The Number of Homeowners with Negative Equity Increases
• Dallas-Fort Worth Homeowners Drowning?
• Three Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Home’s Equity to Pay Debts
• Homeowners Associations Using Foreclosure to Grab Equity Rich Homes?

Steven Sathers, Esq. – A Texas Bankruptcy Lawyer’s Blog (Austin, TX)

• Fifth Circuit Goes All In on Hanging Paragraph
• Interesting Cases I Didn’t Get Around to This Year

TENNESSEE

The McKellar Law Firm, PLLC (Knoxville, TN)

• Heiress Asks UK Court to Reverse Payback in Divorce Decision

SOUTH CAROLINA

Russell A. DeMott, Esq. – SCBankruptcyAttorney.com (Charleston, SC)

• What’s a Redemption?

NEW YORK

Bruce Weiner, Esq. (Rosenberg Musso & Weiner) – NYBankruptcyNet (Brooklyn, NY)

• New York Foreclosures Likely to Continue as ARMs begin to Re-set over next 4 Years

Craig D. Robins, Esq. – Long Island Bankruptcy Blog (Woodbury, NY)

• One-Fourth of All Homeowners Are Underwater.  What Should These Homeowners Do?
• Bankruptcy Change under President Obama

NEW MEXICO

Gini Nelson Law Office – New Mexico Bankruptcy Law Blog (Santa Fe, NM)

• When Foreclosure Threatens: Can You Afford to Keep Your Home? Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

NEVADA

Haines & Krieger (Las Vegas, NV)

• Haines & Krieger Las Vegas Foreclosure Round-up 12.4.09

Black & LoBello Law Blog (Las Vegas, NV)

• 60 Minutes Special: Walking Away
• Homes Projected to Remain Underwater until 2020
• Strategies Regarding Negative Equity

MASSACHUSETTS

Bill McLeod (McLeod Law Offices) – McLeod Law Blog (Boston, MA)

• The President’s “Plan”
• Upside Down

Goldstein & Clegg, LLC – Bankruptcy & Loan Modifications (Lynnfield, MA); also ABA Journal Massachusetts Bankruptcy Blog by Michael Goldstein

• What Is the Home Affordable Modification Program
• Foreclosure or Bankruptcy – Which Is the Lesser of Two Evils?

KANSAS

Mark Neis & Jill Michaux – Kansas Bankruptcy Law Information – (Topeka, KS)

• Negative Equity
• Gap Insurance, Warranty Not PMSI
• 910 Car Claims Get Interest

GEORGIA

Jonathan Ginsberg, Esq. – theBKLaw (Atlanta, GA)

• Should You Save Your Home from Foreclosure, or Should You Let It Go?

FLORIDA

Jonathan Alper, Esq. – Florida Bankruptcy Law Blog (Orlando, FL)

• Defending Mortgage Foreclosure
• Negotiating with Car Lenders

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Brian V. Lee, Esq. – All About Bankruptcy (Washington, D.C.)

• Personal Bankruptcy FAQ (Part 3 of 3)

CALIFORNIA

Northern California

Cathy Moran, Esq. – BankruptcyMastery.com and On the Bankruptcy Soapbox (Mt View, CA) (aka Silicon Valley)

• After the Loan Modification: The Underwater House
• Keeping the House with Negative Equity

Sagaria Law, PC – California Bankruptcy Lawyer Blog (San Jose, Freemon, Monterrey, Redwood City, Salinas, Sacramento, CA); also by Scott Sagaria – American Bankruptcy Association (ABA) Journal California Bankruptcy Blog

• Sacramento Bankruptcy Attorney Talks About The New Bankruptcy Seeker

Southern California

Christine Wilton, Esq. – Los Angeles Bankruptcy Law Monitor (Los Angeles, CA)

• Would You Suggest a Strategic Bankruptcy?
• Mortgage Forensic Loan Audits Scam Alert

Hale Antico, Esq. – Los Angeles Bankruptcy Blog (Los Angeles, CA)

• More than One in Five Homes Underwater
• Shifting Blame for Foreclosures
• Data: Why the Foreclosures?

Howard Nassiri (Vincent D. Howard, Esq. and Damian J. Nassiri, Esq.) – California Bankruptcy Attorney Blog (Anaheim, CA)

• Private Fund Invents Program Paying Underwater Homeowners to Stay Put
• Deutsche Bank Report Predicts that 48 Percent of Homeowners will be Upside-Down in 2011

ALABAMA

Watts Law Group, P.C. and M. Stan Herring, P.C. – Alabama Consumer Law Blog (Birmingham, AL)

• Obama Administration Knew Foreclosure Programs Weren’t Working and Did Nothing
• Consumers Paying Credit Card Bills Instead of Mortgages
• 300 California Law Firms Investigated for Mortgage Scams
• The Problem of “Shadow Inventory”

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