Filing for bankruptcy is a provision given to people with debt problems for a chance to make a fresh start. Recently, a new bankruptcy process has been introduced which makes filing for bankruptcy more difficult than it was in the past years. This was done as a response to the number of people filing for bankruptcy.
According to researchers from Lundquist Consulting, there will be more than 200,000 people who will be filing for bankruptcy. However, a great percentage of this number only want to get rid of their obligations to pay their debts.
Today, filing for bankruptcy will require higher fees to bankruptcy lawyers since they would have more duties and responsibilities in filing and processing documents. Under the new bankruptcy law, the bankruptcy lawyer will be held liable if any false information is found in his client’s case.
Therefore, bankruptcy lawyers will be required to pay penalty fees. In account of this, some lawyers may even increase their charges by as much as 100 percent. Obviously, consumers who are facing financial difficulty will have a harder time shouldering these expenses.
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