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Law and Reality: Here and Now — 235 episodes

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Can Student Loans or Tax Debt Be Wiped Out?

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

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

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

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Business Debt and Those Darn Guarantees

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

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

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Disability, Tax and Debt Problems

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Estate Planning And Elder Law In 2026

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Debt Resolution or Chapter 13 –Which is Best?

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Is Chapter 7 The Solution For Your Debt Situation?

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

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

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Let’s Make 2026 a Great Year!

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Elder Law Changes For Married Couples

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A Fifty Year Mortgage - Is That Really A Solution?

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

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Tax Problems of the Self-Employed

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Estate Questions When We Live Long Enough

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

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They are Suing Me!

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Skyrocketing Problems – Credit Card Debt and Student Loans

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Estate Planning Is NOT ONLY For The Wealthy

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The Future - Where Am I Headed Financially?!

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

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Special Guest - Sylvia Bolos, Consumer Protection Rights

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

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Budget Management To Achieve The 3-Point Retirement Plan

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Elder Law & Disability Law– A Good Marriage

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

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

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

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

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

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Dealing with and Helping an Elderly Parent

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

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

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Should I Disinherit My Child?

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

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Budget Management & Stop Putting Your Kids on the Deed

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Misery – Disability and Credit Card Debt

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

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$1.2 Million in Credit Card Debt

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Solving Property Tax and Mortgage Problems with Chapter 13

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

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Fighting In Probate Court

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Solving Your Debt Problem

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The Bills Have Arrived...What To Do?

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

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Goodbye 2024 and Welcome 2025

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Estate Planning Is Necessary

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Your Best Friends - Chapter 7 & 13

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Budget Management And Post-Election Consequences

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The Offer And Compromise For Taxes, Personal & Business

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Chapter 7 or Chapter 13: A Case Study

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Disability And Estate Planning Considerations

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

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

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Solve My Tax Problem

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Which Is Better: Chapter 13 Or Debt Resolution?

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DTD Revisited: Disabled, Tax Problems, and Debt

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Elder Law - Mom And Dad Are Not Getting Younger

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Chapter 13 Helps With Tax Problems

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Disability & The Nursing Home

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Financial Crisis Management For The Business Owner

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Eliminating Debt Without Using The Equity In Your Home

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Tax Problems - Solutions Include Chapter 13

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Elder Law - You Need To Plan For The Crisis Event

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In Debt Up To Your Eyeballs

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Addressing The Business Tax Problem

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Using Bankruptcy To Solve Tax Problems

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How Social Security Disability Works – The Questions and the Answers

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Tax Time, Tax Problems, & Tax Solutions

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

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Eliminate Credit Card Debt & Foreclosure With Chapter 13

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Tax Problems – Solve Them On Your Terms!

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Mom and Dad are Both on the Brink

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Solving Debt With Chapter 13 & Debt Resolution

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Debt Relief Under Chapter 7 & Tax Law

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Make 2024 Your Benchmark Year

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Budget Management For 2024

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Elder Law & Investments

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Bankruptcy Basics

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Solving Your Tax Problem

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You CAN Get Rid Of Credit Card Debt

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Elder Law Planning

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Offer In Compromise Eliminates Tax Debt

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

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

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How To Solve Your Tax Problem

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Credit Card Debt Is Out Of Control!

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Disability Mandates

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Disability Mandates Debt/Tax Relief

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The Role of “Events” in Estate Planning

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

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Stop Worrying About Tax Debt

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

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

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Credit Card Debt & Now Disabled

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

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Drilling down on Chapter 13

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When A Family Member Dies and Avoiding Probate

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Battles in the Business World

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Preparing For A Recession

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How To Form A New Business

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Tax Filing Strategies & Solving Problems

107

Chapter 13 & Housing

108

Elders – How Much Can You Afford to Lose?

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Tax Time & Eliminating Tax Debt with the Offer in Compromise

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Chapter 13 Saves Your Home & Zeros Out Credit Card Debt

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The 3-Point Retirement Plan +1

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The 3 Point Retirement Plan +1

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Debt Elimination via Chapter 13 or Debt Resolution

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D & B - Disabled and Broke

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

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Estate Plan for 2023

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Spending Season & Eliminating Credit Card Debt

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Surviving Disability and Debt

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Tax & Debt– Chapter 7 Elimination

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Ditching the Credit Card Debt

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Tax Issues – The New “Hot Potato"

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I Want Out of the Debt

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

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Can You Get Out of Debt if Disabled?

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The Big Question & Myths of Bankruptcy

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

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Is The IRS Getting Soft? Not So!

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

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You Never Know What Can Happen – Disability Changes All

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

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Eliminating Debt – Taxes Included with Chapter 7

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How Do I invest With Inflation Raging and the Market?

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

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Eliminating Debt and Taxes with Chapter 7

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Happy New Year 2022

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Starting a New Business

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Disabled and Now Broke!

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Employee Legal Issues

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The Three Point Retirement Plan

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Pat Takes On The State Attorney General!

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Estate Planning’s Role in Managing Debt Issues

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How To Save Your Home From Foreclosure And Eliminate Debt

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

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Eviction Defense Program

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

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

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What is Financial Crisis Management?

148

Elders – How Much Can You Afford to Lose?

149

Covid Ends – Financial Problems Begin

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Work With The Taxman

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Debt Elimination is a Smart Move

152

When COVID Ends – the COLD Begins!

153

Tax Problems – Avoiding & Solving

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Financial Problems to Address

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Business Dilemmas

156

Making Credit Card Debt Go Away

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Disabled and Going Broke Fast

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Messy Situations

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How To Solve Tax And Debt Issues

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Starting Fresh After The Business Is Lost From COVID-19

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But I Don’t Want The Nursing Home

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How Debt Elimination Builds a Better Future

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How To Fight The Tax Man

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Covenants Not To Compete - Competing Interests

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From Bad To Good Credit - Creating The Doorway

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When Mortgage Forbearance Ends...What To Do?

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Medicaid Planning & Social Security Disability During COVID

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The Truth About Credit Card Debt & Your Credit Score

169

Saving Your Business And Yourself

170

Income Down But Tax Problems On The Rise

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The COVID Opportunity - Resolve Your Credit Card Debt!

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Oh No! Mom Needs the Nursing Home!

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

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The Smart Strategy to Resolve Financial Problems

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COVID-19 - There Will Be Solutions

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COVID-19 Prioritization and Preservation

177

We All Need a Coronavirus Survival Plan

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

179

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

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Keeping Your Money Safe From Your Creditors

181

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

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The Rules on IRAs Have Changed

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Debt and Taxes - Save Me in 2020!

184

Disabled and Should Have Used Uber

185

House in Foreclosure and Kid is in Big Trouble

186

Too Much Debt and Now Facing Drunk Driving Charge

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Too Much Debt And Now Facing Drunk Driving Charges!

188

Ancestry DNA - Be Prepared For Some Surprises!

189

OUID Update & When Your Cash Runs Dry

190

Lost My License, My Mind, and Buried in Debt

191

The Smartest Way to Resolve a Tax Problem

192

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

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The Business Approach to Financial Issues

194

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

195

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

196

The Classic Partnership War

197

Gangster Loans - Business Beware!

198

My Back is Broken - Literally & From Tax Problems!

199

Guess What? Everything is Not So Rosey!

200

Your Estate Plan May Not Cut It!

201

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

202

Your Kid Gets In Trouble

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

204

Oh No - I'm In Trouble

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At The Bar - Worried About Debt, Now Jail!

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The Triple Whammy: Disabled with Tax and Debt?

207

The Untold Estate Planning Issues - On Death

208

Getting the Right HELP for a Tax Problem

209

You're Taking Away My Available Credit?

210

What About The Stock Market?

211

I'm All Tapped Out And Full Of Debt

212

The Psychology Of Debt

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I'm tapped Out And Full Of Debt

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Challenging Issues: Social Security Disability and Workers' Compensation

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Business Focus: Resolving the Payroll Tax Issue

216

The Right to Remain Silent - Domestic Violence

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Business Focus - Resolving the Payroll Tax Issue

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

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

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Do You Really Want To Listen To The Banker?

221

Real Life Economic and Physical Tragedy

222

The Estate Planning Mistakes You Don't Want To Make

223

The Truth of the Importance of Your Credit Score

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Resolving Credit Card Debt Outside of Bankruptcy

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The Truth When it Comes to Solving Tax Debt

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Law And Reality: Resolving Credit Card Debt Outside of Bankruptcy

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

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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

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Law And Reality: "I Have a Serious Tax Problem - Help!"

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Law And Reality: "The Innocent Spouse"