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Get Out of Debt Day prompted readers to post a wide range of financial woes
on our message boards. Many of them echoed the same disastrous mistakes.
Don't follow in their footsteps.

By Liz Pulliam Weston

Leo Tolstoy famously wrote in "Anna Karenina," a novel that culminates in an
equally famous suicide, that "All happy families are alike; each unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way."

When families are unhappy because of their finances, however, ...   more »

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John Caher
New York Law Journal
September 20, 2006
A Northern District of New York bankruptcy judge has refused to bail out
Congress for an apparent drafting glitch in the new bankruptcy law that
frequently results in creditors getting less under the "reform" measure than
they got under the old version -- even though the clear intent of lawmakers
and the president was to aid creditors.
Chief Bankruptcy Judge Stephen D. Gerling in In re Rotunda, ...   more »

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DAYTON, Ohio, Sep 19, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Nearly one year has passed
since enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer
Protection Act of 2005 (Oct. 17, 2005). LexisNexis(R) CourtLink(R)
compiled data shows 2006 Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings (Jan. 1 - Sept.
15) are 71 percent lower than 2004 Chapter 7 filings for the same time
period.
Year-to-date Chapter 7 figures in 2006 show 237,578 filings compared
with 2004 Chapter 7 filings of 830,014 compiled ...   more »

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Cards that don't report credit limits are just one of the hidden threats to
your credit score. Here are some of potential hits you might be taking, and
how you can fight back.
By Liz Pulliam Weston
Accountant John Johnson of Springdale, Ark., painstakingly rebuilt his
credit after some business reversals several years ago. But the credit-card
issuer that initially helped him is now standing in his way.
Capital One refuses to report its customers' credit ...   more »