The Law Offices of Ryan F. Beach, PLLC

10/18/2021

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/coronavirus/mortgage-and-housing-assistance/renter-protections/find-help-with-rent-and-utilities/

Federal rental assistance is being distributed in communities to help landlords and renters who are struggling to keep up with rent and other bills.

10/15/2021

IR-2021-191, September 22, 2021 — The Internal Revenue Service has awarded new contracts to three private-sector collection agencies for collection of overdue tax debts.

10/14/2021

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bidens-education-dept-just-wiped-121929245.html

Biden's major overhaul of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program brings 550,000 borrowers closer to $4.56 billion in debt relief.

03/02/2020

In re Edwards, 606 B.R. 356 (Bankr. E.D. Ark. 2019) – A chapter 13 debtor proposed a plan that treated a contract for deed as a secured claim. The seller objected, contending that the contract was …

02/04/2020

Bankruptcy filings increased slightly for the 12-month period ending Dec. 31, 2019, compared with cases for the year ending Dec. 31, 2018, according to statistics released by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. It was the second straight quarter that bankruptcy filings rose, after annual d...

01/27/2020

"Subprime and near-prime customers got increases at a higher-than-average pace, according to the [Consumer Financial Protection Bureau]. That means many of the people getting boosts have blemished or limited histories of paying bills."

What could go wrong?

More bank customers get unsolicited access to additional credit, in what’s becoming a new golden age of plastic.

01/22/2020

IR-2020-09, January 14, 2020 — The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new and improved Tax Withholding Estimator, designed to help workers target the refund they want by having the right amount of federal income tax taken out of their pay.

12/30/2019

Unemployment matched a 50-year low of 3.5% in November, but a New York Federal Reserve Bank survey released on Monday shows more U.S. borrowers this year...

11/15/2019

Many lenders that specialized in payday loans now are promoting an almost equally onerous type of credit, the online installment loan.

10/31/2019

The Fifth Circuit found that the test it established in In re Nat’l Gypsum Co., 118 F.3d 1059, 1069 (5th Cir. 1997), was still good law notwithstanding the intervening case of Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 1612 (2018), and that, under National Gypsum, the bankruptcy properly exercised it...