Lose Your Home or Lose it All

Posted in Uncategorized by admin Thursday April 16, 2009 at about 4:06 am

Sometimes individuals will have to select between filing for bankruptcy or permitting their mortgage lender to foreclose their house. If monthly mortgage payments are not received, the financial institution will eventually file for a foreclosure on the home. The only guaranteed way to stop foreclosure proceedings from occurring is to make a payment to the lender as scheduled. Home loans are very much like automobile loans; if you do not make your monthly payments you always will get it repossessed. It is the same for anybody who has not paid their house loan, the mortgage holder will likely foreclose on the loan.

Insolvency proceedings are a legal action registered by someone who is not able to pay their debt. Once bankruptcy is filed, all current civil proceedings related to the mortgage are put on hold. Therefore, a home loan lender has to terminate all collection activity including, but not limited to, foreclosure. But, a lender might ask for relief from the required stay, and once it is granted, may continue with the previously mentioned action. Filing for Bankruptcy will not stop foreclosure and you still must repay your home loan. Bankruptcy just makes the foreclosure process go forward slower, it does not resolve the original problems.

Although bankruptcy can not forever stop a foreclosure, it will allow an individual time to repay the past due portions or at a minimum makes it little more accessible to repay the home loan. the insolvency process requires a lender to freeze a foreclosure action, a home owner has a short time to produce the funds to pay back the lender. The final option for any home owner to declare bankruptcy when the home owner is completely unable to pay their lenders’ minimum commitments. With bankruptcy, some unsecured debt will probably be discharged but the loan on the home will not. The home owner must be prepared to repay the real estate loan within the given time frame as the debt is secured by an asset. In addition, Chapter 13 bankruptcy has a schedule of payments that is court-ordered, and allows the debtor make payments on his mortgage to get up to date on their balance.

Before the borrower files for bankruptcy, they must meet the conditions. If they do qualify, there will be legal fees to pay. It might cost more in legal fees than if they were to just bootstrap it and continue making home loan payments. If you are thinking that declaring bankruptcy may help to solve the problem, a good attorney should be able to answer any questions. Because insolvency proceedings are really detailed, the borrower should not set about to do it on their own.

This is not legal advice. Contact a bankruptcy attorney in your state for legal advisement.