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Law and Reality: Here and Now — 242 episodes

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1

Disability Benefits & Debt: What You Need to Know

2

The Truth About Credit Scores (Most People Get This Wrong)

3

Should You Use Your Home Equity To Pay Off Credit Cards?

4

Credit Card Debt & Car Payments: The Real Solution

5

How Businesses Survive Massive Debt Problems

6

What Happens If You Die Without an Estate Plan?

7

How to Get Out of Debt Without Ruining Your Future

8

Can Student Loans or Tax Debt Be Wiped Out?

9

IRS & State Tax Problems: What To Do If You Owe Back Taxes | Real Solutions Explained

10

Disability & Estate Planning: What To Do Before It’s Too Late | Protect Your Family & Assets

11

What Am I Supposed To Do When I Can't Charge It?

12

Business Debt and Those Darn Guarantees

13

A Big Scam - Fraudulent Deeds! Special Guest: Anthony Forlini

14

I’m Behind on My House and Taxes – Will Chapter 13 Save Me?

15

Disability, Tax and Debt Problems

16

Estate Planning And Elder Law In 2026

17

Debt Resolution or Chapter 13 –Which is Best?

18

Is Chapter 7 The Solution For Your Debt Situation?

19

The Fun is Over – the Debts are Due : Chapter 13 is the Answer

20

Happy New Year - Let's Set the Plan For 2026

21

Let’s Make 2026 a Great Year!

22

Elder Law Changes For Married Couples

23

A Fifty Year Mortgage - Is That Really A Solution?

24

Let's Be Thankful - Even If My Business Is Suffering?

25

Tax Problems of the Self-Employed

26

Estate Questions When We Live Long Enough

27

LWhat do You Need to Decide When Doing an Estate Plan?

28

They are Suing Me!

29

Skyrocketing Problems – Credit Card Debt and Student Loans

30

Estate Planning Is NOT ONLY For The Wealthy

31

The Future - Where Am I Headed Financially?!

32

Estate Planning: I Don’t Want My $$$ To Pay My Son’s Visa Or His No-Good Wife’s Visa!

33

Special Guest - Sylvia Bolos, Consumer Protection Rights

34

When Behind on House & Taxes - Chapter 13 Can Save You

35

Budget Management To Achieve The 3-Point Retirement Plan

36

Elder Law & Disability Law– A Good Marriage

37

Oh No! IRS Invoices, Letters, & My Available Credit Is Vanishing!

38

How to Stop the IRS from Levying on My Paycheck and Bank Account

39

Am I Obligated To Pay My Spouse’s, Parent’s, or Business’s Debt?

40

Once I Eliminate the Debt - How Do I Fix My Credit Score & Budget for the Future?

41

Chapter 7 – The Least Costly & Fastest Way To Eliminate Debt

42

Dealing with and Helping an Elderly Parent

43

Student Loans: They Are Going To Garnish My Paycheck - Help Me!

44

If I Lose My Job - How Do I Start A Business

45

Should I Disinherit My Child?

46

The Tax Bill Came – What do I do about it and the Other Bills!

47

Budget Management & Stop Putting Your Kids on the Deed

48

Misery – Disability and Credit Card Debt

49

Chapter 13 – Only Game in Town for Student Debt & File Your Taxes or an Extension

50

$1.2 Million in Credit Card Debt

51

Solving Property Tax and Mortgage Problems with Chapter 13

52

Chapter 7 & Debt Resolution – Which is the Fastest and Least Costly Way to Dump the Debt?

53

Fighting In Probate Court

54

Solving Your Debt Problem

55

The Bills Have Arrived...What To Do?

56

Trouble, Trouble, Trouble: Tax, Debt, and Disability

57

Goodbye 2024 and Welcome 2025

58

Estate Planning Is Necessary

59

Your Best Friends - Chapter 7 & 13

60

Budget Management And Post-Election Consequences

61

The Offer And Compromise For Taxes, Personal & Business

62

Chapter 7 or Chapter 13: A Case Study

63

Disability And Estate Planning Considerations

64

How Do I Know If Chapter 7 Or Chapter 13 Is Right For Me?

65

What's The Best Plan For Dealing With Student Debt?

66

Solve My Tax Problem

67

Which Is Better: Chapter 13 Or Debt Resolution?

68

DTD Revisited: Disabled, Tax Problems, and Debt

69

Elder Law - Mom And Dad Are Not Getting Younger

70

Chapter 13 Helps With Tax Problems

71

Disability & The Nursing Home

72

Financial Crisis Management For The Business Owner

73

Eliminating Debt Without Using The Equity In Your Home

74

Tax Problems - Solutions Include Chapter 13

75

Elder Law - You Need To Plan For The Crisis Event

76

In Debt Up To Your Eyeballs

77

Addressing The Business Tax Problem

78

Using Bankruptcy To Solve Tax Problems

79

How Social Security Disability Works – The Questions and the Answers

80

Tax Time, Tax Problems, & Tax Solutions

81

Special Guest Warren Pierce – Let’s Talk Sports & Elections

82

Eliminate Credit Card Debt & Foreclosure With Chapter 13

83

Tax Problems – Solve Them On Your Terms!

84

Mom and Dad are Both on the Brink

85

Solving Debt With Chapter 13 & Debt Resolution

86

Debt Relief Under Chapter 7 & Tax Law

87

Make 2024 Your Benchmark Year

88

Budget Management For 2024

89

Elder Law & Investments

90

Bankruptcy Basics

91

Solving Your Tax Problem

92

You CAN Get Rid Of Credit Card Debt

93

Elder Law Planning

94

Offer In Compromise Eliminates Tax Debt

95

Which is Better to Eliminate Debt - Chapter 13 or Debt Resolution?

96

Save Your Home and Keep the Student Loans from Killing You!

97

How To Solve Your Tax Problem

98

Credit Card Debt Is Out Of Control!

99

Disability Mandates

100

Disability Mandates Debt/Tax Relief

101

The Role of “Events” in Estate Planning

102

How Chapter 13 Saves Your Home While Chapter 7 Does Not!

103

Stop Worrying About Tax Debt

104

Chapter 13 – Save Your Home – Eliminate Your Tax and Credit Card Debt

105

Don’t Let Credit Card Debt Destroy Your Future – Ditch it with Chapter 7

106

Credit Card Debt & Now Disabled

107

Should I: Rent or Buy My Home? Lease or Buy My Car?

108

Drilling down on Chapter 13

109

When A Family Member Dies and Avoiding Probate

110

Battles in the Business World

111

Preparing For A Recession

112

How To Form A New Business

113

Tax Filing Strategies & Solving Problems

114

Chapter 13 & Housing

115

Elders – How Much Can You Afford to Lose?

116

Tax Time & Eliminating Tax Debt with the Offer in Compromise

117

Chapter 13 Saves Your Home & Zeros Out Credit Card Debt

118

The 3-Point Retirement Plan +1

119

The 3 Point Retirement Plan +1

120

Debt Elimination via Chapter 13 or Debt Resolution

121

D & B - Disabled and Broke

122

2022 Is Behind Us...And 2023 Is Before Us

123

Estate Plan for 2023

124

Spending Season & Eliminating Credit Card Debt

125

Surviving Disability and Debt

126

Tax & Debt– Chapter 7 Elimination

127

Ditching the Credit Card Debt

128

Tax Issues – The New “Hot Potato"

129

I Want Out of the Debt

130

Dad Needs the Nursing Home – What about the Investment Accounts?

131

Can You Get Out of Debt if Disabled?

132

The Big Question & Myths of Bankruptcy

133

It’s College Time for Your Kid – Issues *UPDATE ON SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY

134

Is The IRS Getting Soft? Not So!

135

How Chapter 13 Can Save Your Home & Eliminate Credit Card Debt

136

You Never Know What Can Happen – Disability Changes All

137

Using Chapter 13 to Save Your Home and Control the I – R – S !!!

138

Eliminating Debt – Taxes Included with Chapter 7

139

How Do I invest With Inflation Raging and the Market?

140

Chapter 13 Protects Your Home & Can Zero Out Credit Card Debt

141

Eliminating Debt and Taxes with Chapter 7

142

Happy New Year 2022

143

Starting a New Business

144

Disabled and Now Broke!

145

Employee Legal Issues

146

The Three Point Retirement Plan

147

Pat Takes On The State Attorney General!

148

Estate Planning’s Role in Managing Debt Issues

149

How To Save Your Home From Foreclosure And Eliminate Debt

150

Stop! Making Moves Before Bankruptcy Is The LAST Thing You Want To Do!

151

Eviction Defense Program

152

My Business Is Failing - Can I Save It? Should I Save It?

153

Medicaid Planning in the Post-COVID-19 Era. Is it Ever Going to be Post-COVID?

154

What is Financial Crisis Management?

155

Elders – How Much Can You Afford to Lose?

156

Covid Ends – Financial Problems Begin

157

Work With The Taxman

158

Debt Elimination is a Smart Move

159

When COVID Ends – the COLD Begins!

160

Tax Problems – Avoiding & Solving

161

Financial Problems to Address

162

Business Dilemmas

163

Making Credit Card Debt Go Away

164

Disabled and Going Broke Fast

165

Messy Situations

166

How To Solve Tax And Debt Issues

167

Starting Fresh After The Business Is Lost From COVID-19

168

But I Don’t Want The Nursing Home

169

How Debt Elimination Builds a Better Future

170

How To Fight The Tax Man

171

Covenants Not To Compete - Competing Interests

172

From Bad To Good Credit - Creating The Doorway

173

When Mortgage Forbearance Ends...What To Do?

174

Medicaid Planning & Social Security Disability During COVID

175

The Truth About Credit Card Debt & Your Credit Score

176

Saving Your Business And Yourself

177

Income Down But Tax Problems On The Rise

178

The COVID Opportunity - Resolve Your Credit Card Debt!

179

Oh No! Mom Needs the Nursing Home!

180

Chapter 13 - Resolving Tax Debt & Saving Your Home From Foreclosure

181

The Smart Strategy to Resolve Financial Problems

182

COVID-19 - There Will Be Solutions

183

COVID-19 Prioritization and Preservation

184

We All Need a Coronavirus Survival Plan

185

I'm In Trouble - I'm Disabled and Need Help. Save My Home, Please!

186

Tax and Debt Problems - When Bankruptcy Helps, and When You Need a Different Plan

187

Keeping Your Money Safe From Your Creditors

188

Not Ho, Ho – It’s Oh No, No the Bills are Here!

189

The Rules on IRAs Have Changed

190

Debt and Taxes - Save Me in 2020!

191

Disabled and Should Have Used Uber

192

House in Foreclosure and Kid is in Big Trouble

193

Too Much Debt and Now Facing Drunk Driving Charge

194

Too Much Debt And Now Facing Drunk Driving Charges!

195

Ancestry DNA - Be Prepared For Some Surprises!

196

OUID Update & When Your Cash Runs Dry

197

Lost My License, My Mind, and Buried in Debt

198

The Smartest Way to Resolve a Tax Problem

199

Domestic Violence - You Don't Want to Go There, But...

200

The Business Approach to Financial Issues

201

Tax Problems - Sometimes Chapter 7 or 13 is the Best Solution

202

You Have The Right To Remain Silent - So Do It!

203

The Classic Partnership War

204

Gangster Loans - Business Beware!

205

My Back is Broken - Literally & From Tax Problems!

206

Guess What? Everything is Not So Rosey!

207

Your Estate Plan May Not Cut It!

208

"What's The Best Way To Get Out Of Debt? Bankruptcy or No Bankruptcy?

209

Your Kid Gets In Trouble

210

Protecting Mom & Dad's Assets When The Nursing Home Is Needed

211

Oh No - I'm In Trouble

212

At The Bar - Worried About Debt, Now Jail!

213

The Triple Whammy: Disabled with Tax and Debt?

214

The Untold Estate Planning Issues - On Death

215

Getting the Right HELP for a Tax Problem

216

You're Taking Away My Available Credit?

217

What About The Stock Market?

218

I'm All Tapped Out And Full Of Debt

219

The Psychology Of Debt

220

I'm tapped Out And Full Of Debt

221

Challenging Issues: Social Security Disability and Workers' Compensation

222

Business Focus: Resolving the Payroll Tax Issue

223

The Right to Remain Silent - Domestic Violence

224

Business Focus - Resolving the Payroll Tax Issue

225

The Anatomy of a Lawsuit - When You Are The One Being Sued

226

Changing Scene for Elder Care- The VA Adopts a Lookback Rule

227

Do You Really Want To Listen To The Banker?

228

Real Life Economic and Physical Tragedy

229

The Estate Planning Mistakes You Don't Want To Make

230

The Truth of the Importance of Your Credit Score

231

Resolving Credit Card Debt Outside of Bankruptcy

232

The Truth When it Comes to Solving Tax Debt

233

Law And Reality: Resolving Credit Card Debt Outside of Bankruptcy

234

Law And Reality 9 - 8-18

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Law And Reality 9 - 1-18

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Law And Reality 8 - 25 - 18

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Law And Reality 8 - 18 - 18

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Law And Reality: "I Have A Serious Tax Problem - Help!" - Episode Date 8-11-18

239

Law And Reality: "The Innocent Spouse" - Episode Date 8-3-18

240

Law And Reality: "Credit Cards Out Of Control" - Episode Date 7-28-18

241

Law And Reality: "The Innocent Spouse" - Episode Date 7-21-18

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Law And Reality: "Forming A Business" - Episode Date 7-14-18